Android decoder->decode returned false for Bitmap download

Question

I\'ve started getting a

DEBUG/skia(xxxx): --- decoder->decode returned false 

issue on a few profile images from Facebook that I use in

Answer 1

The source code from this ImageDownloader.java is a good orientation. It has a bug fix which addresses the Issue 6066 by providing a patched FlushedInputStream class.

Another thing which you might want to take care of, is to execute the decoding in the same thread as the HTTP request was executed:

@Override
protected Bitmap doInBackground(String... url) {
     // execute HTTP GET request and decode response
     ...
     return bitmap
}


@Override
protected void onPostExecute(Bitmap result) {
     imageView.setImageBitmap(result);
}

I had done the decoding in the onPostExecute(), which is executed in the UI thread, and it would not work anymore, giving me the same error.