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Why MediaStore.Images.Media give me only BitMap while on the phone images are JPG

I'm "playing" with MediaStore.Images.Media and I saw that I can only retrieve BMP format (MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.getThumbnail() - MediaStore.Images.Media.getThumbnail()), while the same images on my device actually are JPG.

I didn't find any clear explanation on the internet.

Can anybody help me understand better?

Thank you in advance.

Solution

  • getThumbnail() returns a Bitmap. This has nothing to do with the BMP file format. A Bitmap is a decoded image, regardless of the encoding of whatever the image came from (JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, etc.).