Android : Bitmap save to location

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Published on 2009-03-16T03:26:06Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 10:53 UTC
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I am working on a function to download an image from a web server, redisplay it on the screen, and if the user wishes to keep the image, save it on the SD card in a certain folder. Is there an easy way to take a bitmap and just save it to the SD card in a folder of my choice?

My issue is that I can download the image, display it on screen as a Bitmap. The only way I have been able to find to save an image to a particular folder is to use FileOutputStream, but that requires a byte array. I am not sure how to convert (if this is even the right way) from Bitmap to byte array, so I can use a Fileoutput stream to write the data.

The other option I have is it use MediaStore :

MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage(getContentResolver(), bm,
barcodeNumber + ".jpg Card Image", barcodeNumber
+ ".jpg Card Image");

Which works fine to save to SD card, but does not allow you to customize the folder.

Any assistance would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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