Android bitmap quality issues

Question

In my app, the bitmap is drawn as if the color is some lower quality type. If i load up the background image using the gallery app, it loads just fine and does not look like

Answer 1

question is somewhat similar to Bad image quality after resizing/scaling bitmap

try disabling scaling, resize in an offscreen bitmap and make sure that Bitmap is 32 bits (ARGB888):

Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inScaled = false;
options.inDither = false;
options.inPreferredConfig = Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888;
Bitmap source = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(a.getResources(), path, options);

another good and complete answer about image scaling/processing can be found at Quality problems when resizing an image at runtime