Most robust way to fetch album art in Android

Question

Please note that I have already been through similar questions and their answers here and on other websites. I also have a solution that works on some devices (my G2X runnin

Answer 1

Uri sArtworkUri = Uri.parse("content://media/external/audio/albumart");
Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(sArtworkUri, album_id);
ContentResolver res = context.getContentResolver();
InputStream in = res.openInputStream(uri);
Bitmap artwork = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);

More complete sample code can be found in Android Music player source here https://github.com/android/platform_packages_apps_music/blob/master/src/com/android/music/MusicUtils.java method getArtworkQuick.