Android: Get thumbnail of image on SD card, given Uri of original image

Question

So i\'ve got a Uri of an image the user chooses out of images off his SD card. And i\'d like to display a thumbnail of that image, because obviously, the image could be huge

Answer 1

I believe this code is fastest way to generate thumbnail from file on SD card:

 public static Bitmap decodeFile(String file, int size) {
    //Decode image size
    BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
    BitmapFactory.decodeFile(file, o);

    //Find the correct scale value. It should be the power of 2.
    int width_tmp = o.outWidth, height_tmp = o.outHeight;
    int scale = (int)Maths.pow(2, (double)(scale-1));
    while (true) {
        if (width_tmp / 2 < size || height_tmp / 2 < size) {
            break;
        }
        width_tmp /= 2;
        height_tmp /= 2;
        scale++;
    }

    //Decode with inSampleSize
    BitmapFactory.Options o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    o2.inSampleSize = scale;
    return BitmapFactory.decodeFile(file, o2);
}

Answer 2

This package will let you access image URI to receive image size, large Bitmap data, sampling image to any smaller size for saving memory and maximize performance.

It uses InputStream and BitmapFactory:

public int[] getImageSize(Uri uri){
    try {
        BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
        InputStream input = this.getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);
        BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input, null, options); input.close();
        return new int[]{options.outWidth, options.outHeight};
    }
    catch (Exception e){}
    return new int[]{0,0};
}
public Bitmap BitmapImage(Uri uri){return BitmapImage(uri,-1,-1);}
public Bitmap BitmapImage(Uri uri, int maxSize){return BitmapImage(uri,maxSize,maxSize);}
public Bitmap BitmapImage(Uri uri, int Wmax, int Hmax){
    try {   
        InputStream input = this.getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);
        double ratio=1;
        if ((Wmax>-1)&&(Hmax>-1)){
            int[] wh=getImageSize(uri); double w=wh[0], h=wh[1];
            if (w/Wmax>1){ratio=Wmax/w; if (h*ratio>Hmax){ratio=Hmax/h;}}
            else if (h/Hmax>1){ratio=Hmax/h;}
        }
        BitmapFactory.Options bitmapOptions = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        bitmapOptions.inSampleSize = (int)Math.ceil(1/ratio);
        bitmapOptions.inPreferredConfig=Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888;
        Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input, null, bitmapOptions);
        input.close();
        return bitmap;
    }
    catch (Exception e){}
    return null;
}

Four functions for different use case:

/*
    getImageSize(Uri uri): return int[]{ width, height}
    BitmapImage(Uri uri): return Bitmap in full size
    BitmapImage(Uri uri, int maxSize): return sampled Bitmap which is limited in square size
    BitmapImage(Uri uri, int Wmax, int Hmax): return sampled Bitmap which is limited width and height
*/

Answer 3

A few trying I could not get the thumbnail path of image from SD. i am resolved this problem getting an android image bitmap, before I create an image view in adapter for gridview (or where you need). So i call method imageView.setImageBitmap(someMethod(Context context, imageID))

Bitmap someMethod(Context context, long imageId){

    Bitmap bitmap =   Media.Images.Thumbnails.getThumbnail(context.getAplicationContext.getContentResolver(), imageid, MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.MINI_KIND, null);
    return bitmap;
}

You can get image ID from your SD using this guide (Get list of photo galleries on Android)

Answer 4

You can simply create thumbnail video and image using ThumnailUtil class of java

Bitmap resized = ThumbnailUtils.extractThumbnail(BitmapFactory.decodeFile(file.getPath()), width, height);


 public static Bitmap createVideoThumbnail (String filePath, int kind)

Added in API level 8 Create a video thumbnail for a video. May return null if the video is corrupt or the format is not supported.

Parameters filePath the path of video file kind could be MINI_KIND or MICRO_KIND

For more Source code of Thumbnail Util class

Developer.android.com

Answer 5

This code will do the job:

Bitmap getPreview(URI uri) {
    File image = new File(uri);

    BitmapFactory.Options bounds = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    bounds.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
    BitmapFactory.decodeFile(image.getPath(), bounds);
    if ((bounds.outWidth == -1) || (bounds.outHeight == -1))
        return null;

    int originalSize = (bounds.outHeight > bounds.outWidth) ? bounds.outHeight
            : bounds.outWidth;

    BitmapFactory.Options opts = new BitmapFactory.Options();
    opts.inSampleSize = originalSize / THUMBNAIL_SIZE;
    return BitmapFactory.decodeFile(image.getPath(), opts);     
}

You may want to calculate the nearest power of 2 to use for inSampleSize, because it's said to be faster.

Answer 6

If you like HQ thumbnails, so use [RapidDecoder][1] library. It is simple as follow:

import rapid.decoder.BitmapDecoder;
...
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapDecoder.from(getResources(), R.drawable.image)
                             .scale(width, height)
                             .useBuiltInDecoder(true)
                             .decode();

Don't forget to use builtin decoder if you want to scale down less than 50% and a HQ result. I tested it in API Level 8 :)