Re: [android-developers] Re: PNG quality in WebView based app

On 05/10/2010 01:52 PM, Yahel wrote:
> I ran into the same problem a few monthes back.
>
> I spent hours trying to figure out why a webview would degrade the
> quality of an image.
>
> Turns out it was not the webview, it was my provider : When browsing
> the web on gprs or edge my provider downgrades image quality on their
> server so that its a lot lighter to download on their network.
> When I tried over wifi everything came back to normal.
>
> In the end I implemented a regular binary file download from my
> server, and then displayed that image.
>

Yikes! Or TLS :)

Mike
> Yahel
>
>
> On 10 mai, 22:20, Jeff<jeff.th...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am using WebView to display html content in an app. One of the pages
>> has a rather large PNG image. The image is large and detailed on
>> purpose because the idea is to use it as a map and allow users to zoom
>> in to see the detail.
>>
>> Unfortunately, when the image is displayed with WebView, the quality
>> is horrific. I am assuming that WebView is attempting to do some image
>> optimization to reduce the size of the graphic.
>>
>> Is there anyway to prevent it from doing this? I don't want the image
>> to lose any of its quality.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>>
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