NewFromFD failed in nativeDecodeFileDescriptor - Android 4.4

Question

I have used Android sample project ContactsList (http://developer.android.com/shareables/training/ContactsList.zip) as an example to develop contacts Activity in my app. It is working perfectly on all Android versions, but in Android 4.4 the contact images are not being loaded and I get the following error: ``` NewFromFD failed in nativeDecodeFileDescriptor ``` This happens while this method is being executed: ``` BitmapFactory.decodeFileDescriptor(fileDescriptor, null, options); ``` and it always returns null. To get the fileDescriptor itself I use this method: ``` private Bitmap loadContactPhotoThumbnail(String photoData, int imageSize) { if (!isAdded() || getActivity() == null) { return null; } AssetFileDescriptor afd = null; try { Uri thumbUri; if (Utils.hasHoneycomb()) { thumbUri = Uri.parse(photoData); Log.d("imageloader", photoData); } else { final Uri contactUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(Contacts.CONTENT_URI,photoData); thumbUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(contactUri, Photo.CONTENT_DI…

Accepted Answer

I had the same problem, and although I do not know what is the problem I found a solution, which works on KitKat & JellyBean (4.2.2). All you have to do is opening the file as an `InputStream` instead of a `AssetFileDescriptor`. I used this code:

```
private Bitmap loadContactPhotoThumbnail(String photoData) {
    InputStream is = null;
    try {
        Uri thumbUri;
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
            thumbUri = Uri.parse(photoData);
        } else {
            final Uri contactUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(
                    Contacts.CONTENT_URI, photoData);
            thumbUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(contactUri, Contacts.Photo.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);
        }

is = getContentResolver().openInputStream(thumbUri);

if (is != null) {
            return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);
        }
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        if (is != null) {
            try {
                is.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
    return null;
}
```

It's the same code that you can find at Display contact badge, the only modification is that it uses `InputStream`.

NewFromFD failed in nativeDecodeFileDescriptor - Android 4.4

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