Android: Get thumbnail of image on SD card, given Uri of original image
android, image, thumbnails, uri
Solution
You can simply create thumbnail video and image using ThumnailUtil class of java
Bitmap resized = ThumbnailUtils.extractThumbnail(BitmapFactory.decodeFile(file.getPath()), width, height);
public static Bitmap createVideoThumbnail (String filePath, int kind)
Added in API level 8 Create a video thumbnail for a video. May return null if the video is corrupt or the format is not supported.
Parameters filePath the path of video file kind could be MINI_KIND or MICRO_KIND
For more Source code of Thumbnail Util class
Developer.android.com
Problem
So i've got a Uri of an image the user chooses out of images off his SD card. And i'd like to display a thumbnail of that image, because obviously, the image could be huge and take up the whole screen. Anyone know how?