Storing image in the database

[chetan dhumane]

   
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();   		    	
   		    	Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(mFiles[i]);   		    	
   		    	bm.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG,100, baos);
   		    	b = baos.toByteArray();  		    	
   		    	int len1 = b.length;
   		    	
   		    	ContentValues contentValues = new ContentValues();  
   		    	
   		    	contentValues.put(ItContentProvider.Datetime,System.currentTimeMillis());
   		  	contentValues.put(ItContentProvider.Usagefrequency, "233");
		     	contentValues.put(ItContentProvider.Type, "Image");		
		     	contentValues.put(ItContentProvider.Thumbnail, b.toString());
		     	
		     	
		     	
		     	
	     	Uri uri = cr.insert(ItContentProvider.CONTENT_URI, contentValues);



		     	
		     	try {
					OutputStream outStream = getContentResolver().openOutputStream(uri);
					
					bm.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, outStream);
				} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
					// TODO Auto-generated catch block
					e1.printStackTrace();
					Log.d("Not done", ""+e1);
				}
 

Not able to store image in the database ?

[Ankit Garg]

Generally its not recommended to store files in Android database. To do that, you can include a column of type _data in your database table, android in that case will store the file in a separate location and store the reference to the file in the database. This process is mostly automatic. Look at this

[chetan dhumane]

But I am able to store the byte array in the database.
Can I read it back and convert it to Image ?

[Ankit Garg]

In your previous post you wrote you are not able to store the image in the database and now you are saying you are able to store it in the database?? Your code doesn't have anything related to reading the image. If you are having problems reading the file back, then show us the code which reads the file from the database...