Android: Bug with ThreadSafeClientConnManager downloading images

Question

For my current application I collect images from different \"event providers\" in Spain.

  Bitmap bmp=null;
  HttpGet httpRequest = new HttpGet(strURL);

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Answer 1

Stefan,

I've had the same issue, and didn't find much searching the internet. Many people have had this issue, but not alot of answers to solve it.

I was fetching images using URLConnection, but I found out the issue doesn't lie in the download, but the BitmapFactory.decodeStream was having an issue decoding the image.

I changed my code to reflect your original code (using httpRequest). I made one change, which I found at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/171b8bf35dbbed96/c3ec5f45436ceec8?lnk=raot (thanks Nilesh). You need to add "BufferedHttpEntity bufHttpEntity = new BufferedHttpEntity(entity); "

Here was my previous code:

        conn = (HttpURLConnection) bitmapUrl.openConnection(); 
        conn.connect();
        is = conn.getInputStream();
        //bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
        //bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(bis);
        bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);

And her is the code that works:

            HttpGet httpRequest = null;

    try {
        httpRequest = new HttpGet(bitmapUrl.toURI());
    } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpResponse response = (HttpResponse) httpclient.execute(httpRequest);

        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        BufferedHttpEntity bufHttpEntity = new BufferedHttpEntity(entity); 
        InputStream instream = bufHttpEntity.getContent();
        bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(instream);

As I said, I have a page that download around 40 images, and you can refresh to see the most recent photos. I would have almost half fail with the "decoder->decode returned false error". With the above code, I have had no problems.

Thanks