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Why the Bitmap is always null, from image byte array?



I have a problem and can not solve in my application. The application performs operations on images like PNG, the image is convert in a byte array , then a piece from this array of bytes is performed on bitwise operations , the problem is the new series of new bitmap format byte is always null. I just do not understand why the new bitmap, from new array byte, is always null and not know how to fix it this bug.







// GetByte method from Image



private byte[] getByteImageData(String filePath) {

/*

Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(filePath);

Bitmap mutable = bitmap.copy(Bitmap.Config.RGB_565, true);

ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

mutable.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, baos);



return baos.toByteArray();

*/





byte[] _imagebytedata = new byte[1024];

InputStream _input = null;



try {

if (filePath != null && (filePath.length() > 0)) {



// Create a file for image

File _fileimage = new File(filePath);



if (_fileimage.exists()) {



// Get the byte from file image

_input = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(

_fileimage));

_imagebytedata = new byte[(int) _fileimage.length()];

_input.read(_imagebytedata, 0, (int) _fileimage.length());

_input.close();

}

}

} catch (Exception e) {



}



// Bitwise operations



private byte[] Text(byte[] imagedata, byte[] textmess, int offset) {





for (int i = 0; i < textmess.length; ++i) {

int add = textmess[i];



for (int bit = 7; bit >= 0; --bit, ++offset) {

int b = (add >>> bit) & 1;

imagedata[offset] = (byte) ((imagedata[offset] & 0xFE) |b);

}

}

return imagedata;

}



//Save image from new byte array



private boolean saveImage(String pathFile,byte[] encodedimage) {



OutputStream _output = null;

File _newFileImage = new File(pathFile);

byte[] _encodedimage = encodedimage;

//Bitmap _imagebitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(encodedimage, 0, encodedimage.length);



if (_newFileImage.exists()) {

try {



_output = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(

_newFileImage));

_output.write(_encodedimage, 0, _encodedimage.length);

_output.flush();

_output.close();

return true;



} catch (Exception e) {

}

;



}// _newFileImage.exists()

return false;

}





public boolean encodeTextInFile(String filepath, String text) {



byte[] _newimagebytedata;

byte[] _imagebytedata = getByteImageData(filepath);

byte[] _textbytedata = text.getBytes();

byte[] _lengthbytedata = byteConversion(text.length());



Bitmap _bitmapunu = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(_imagebytedata, 0, _imagebytedata.length);

_newimagebytedata = Text(_imagebytedata, _lengthbytedata, 33);

Bitmap _bitmapdoi = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(_newimagebytedata, 0, _newimagebytedata.length);

// The value of variable _bitmapdoi is null

_newimagebytedata = Text(_imagebytedata, _textbytedata, 65);



return saveImage(filepath, _newimagebytedata);

}




Comments

  1. It looks as if you are trying to encode a text message in the lower bits of the image (if I understand your code correctly). I actually used this as a christmas card for fellow geeks this year.

    However, when you create Text you encode the text into the byte[] of the image file thus probably destroying the image (unless you are very lucky). You probably want your addition of the text bytes to be on the decoded image (Bitmap _bitmapunu).

    The javadoc for Bitmap.decodeByteArray says that it will return null if the image can not be decoded.

    This is what you need to do:


    Read the image bytes from the file, say fileArray.
    Decode the fileArray into actual pixels, imageArray
    Manipulate the pixels in imageArray
    Encode the pixels into a image format again (such as png), say newFileArray.
    Store the newFileArray to a file.


    What you seem to be doing is trying to manipulate the bytes in fileArray directly, thus breaking the file format and making it impossible to decode the bytes into pixels.

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