Resize a large bitmap file to scaled output file on Android

Question

I have a large bitmap (say 3888x2592) in a file. Now, I want to resize that bitmap to 800x533 and save it to another file. I normally would scale the bitmap by calling

Answer 1

This worked for me. The function gets a path to a file on the sd card and returns a Bitmap in the maximum displayable size. The code is from Ofir with some changes like image file on sd instead a Ressource and the witdth and heigth are get from the Display Object.

private Bitmap makeBitmap(String path) {

    try {
        final int IMAGE_MAX_SIZE = 1200000; // 1.2MP
        //resource = getResources();

        // Decode image size
        BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
        BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path, options);

        int scale = 1;
        while ((options.outWidth * options.outHeight) * (1 / Math.pow(scale, 2)) >
                IMAGE_MAX_SIZE) {
            scale++;
        }
        Log.d("TAG", "scale = " + scale + ", orig-width: " + options.outWidth + ", orig-height: " + options.outHeight);

        Bitmap pic = null;
        if (scale > 1) {
            scale--;
            // scale to max possible inSampleSize that still yields an image
            // larger than target
            options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
            options.inSampleSize = scale;
            pic = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path, options);

            // resize to desired dimensions

            Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
            Point size = new Point();
            display.getSize(size);
            int width = size.y;
            int height = size.x;

            //int height = imageView.getHeight();
            //int width = imageView.getWidth();
            Log.d("TAG", "1th scale operation dimenions - width: " + width + ", height: " + height);

            double y = Math.sqrt(IMAGE_MAX_SIZE
                    / (((double) width) / height));
            double x = (y / height) * width;

            Bitmap scaledBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(pic, (int) x, (int) y, true);
            pic.recycle();
            pic = scaledBitmap;

            System.gc();
        } else {
            pic = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path);
        }

        Log.d("TAG", "bitmap size - width: " +pic.getWidth() + ", height: " + pic.getHeight());
        return pic;

    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("TAG", e.getMessage(),e);
        return null;
    }

}