Converting bitmap to byteArray android

Solution 1:

You can use copyPixelsToBuffer() to move the pixel data to a Buffer, or you can use getPixels() and then convert the integers to bytes with bit-shifting.

copyPixelsToBuffer() is probably what you'll want to use, so here is an example on how you can use it:

//b is the Bitmap

//calculate how many bytes our image consists of.
int bytes = b.getByteCount();
//or we can calculate bytes this way. Use a different value than 4 if you don't use 32bit images.
//int bytes = b.getWidth()*b.getHeight()*4; 

ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(bytes); //Create a new buffer
b.copyPixelsToBuffer(buffer); //Move the byte data to the buffer

byte[] array = buffer.array(); //Get the underlying array containing the data.

Solution 2:

instead of the following line in @jave answer:

int bytes = b.getByteCount();

Use the following line and function:

int bytes = byteSizeOf(b);

protected int byteSizeOf(Bitmap data) {
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB_MR1) {
    return data.getRowBytes() * data.getHeight();
} else if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
    return data.getByteCount();
} else {
      return data.getAllocationByteCount();
}

Solution 3:

BitmapCompat.getAllocationByteCount(bitmap);

is helpful to find the required size of the ByteBuffer