How to create a Drawable from byte[] ? (Android)

Question

I have an array of bytes and I need to convert it into a Android Drawable. How can I perform this conversion?

Here is what i tried but without success:

byte[] b = getByteArray();
ByteArrayInputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(b);
Drawable drw = Drawable.createFromStream(is, "articleImage");

drw is always null!

EDIT:

My byte[] was actually corrupted/incomplete, that was the problem.

Solution 1

If your byte[] b is contains imagedata then you can also try this,

 Drawable image = new BitmapDrawable(BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(b, 0, b.length));

EDIT

BitmapDrawable constructor without Resources is now deprecated, So use this instead:

Drawable image = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(),BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(b, 0, b.length));

Try this and let me know what happen,

Solution 2

Do you really need a Drawable ? If Bitmap can fit, then :

Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);

Comments

[Paulo Barros]

It is not returning null anymore, it is returning a drawable object, but no picture is shown when I print it in the screen. I actually have a Blob in a database, I convert it to String, then to byte[], then to Drawable. It will be a pain to figure out where the error may be.

[user370305]

and what about if your use direct byte array to create drawable without it converting to string..?

[user370305]

And also store byte array directly in sqlite db as blob type, try this, let see what happening...