How to get high resolution website logo (favicon) for a given URL

Question

I\'m developing a web browser on Android and want to show the URL logo for the most visited sites like in Chrome (4 X 2). But the problem is that most favicons (eg: http://w

Answer 1

Here is a new and genuine solution which will always give you the best results-

1. Webchromeclient gives a callback of onReceivedTouchIconUrl method for all the websites just hold the url from here.

2. Next step is to convert this url to bitmap which can be done like this-

   try {
       URL url = new URL(touchiconUrl);
       HttpURLConnection connection =
               (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
       connection.setDoInput(true);
       connection.connect();
       InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();
       Bitmap myBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input);
       return myBitmap;
   } catch (IOException e) {
       e.printStackTrace();
       return null;
   }
   

3. Next step is to send this bitmap for the shortcut.

Note: Remember to create bitmap on background thread like asynctask.