How to Pass Images (Bitmaps) Between Android Activities Using Bundles

how do you pass images (bitmaps) between android activities using bundles?

I would highly recommend a different approach.

It's possible if you REALLY want to do it, but it costs a lot of memory and is also slow. It might not work if you have an older phone and a big bitmap. You could just pass it as an extra, for example intent.putExtra("data", bitmap). A Bitmap implements Parcelable, so you can put it in an extra. Likewise, a bundle has putParcelable.

If you want to pass it inbetween activities, I would store it in a file. That's more efficient, and less work for you. You can create private files in your data folder using MODE_PRIVATE that are not accessible to any other app.

How can I pass a Bitmap object from one activity to another

Bitmap implements Parcelable, so you could always pass it with the intent:

Intent intent = new Intent(this, NewActivity.class);
intent.putExtra("BitmapImage", bitmap);

and retrieve it on the other end:

Intent intent = getIntent(); 
Bitmap bitmap = (Bitmap) intent.getParcelableExtra("BitmapImage");

Passing Bitmap between two activities

You can simply try with below -

Intent i = new Intent(this, Second.class)
i.putExtra("Image", bitmap);
startActivity(i)

And, in Second.class

Bitmap bitmap = (Bitmap) intent.getParcelableExtra("Image");

Have a look at here If you want to compress your Bitmap before sending to next activity just have a look at below -

Intent i = new Intent(this, NextActivity.class);
Bitmap b; // your bitmap
ByteArrayOutputStream bs = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
b.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 50, bs);
i.putExtra("byteArray", bs.toByteArray());
startActivity(i);

in your nextactivity -

if(getIntent().hasExtra("byteArray")) {
    ImageView previewThumbnail = new ImageView(this);
    Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(
                    getIntent().getByteArrayExtra("byteArray"),0,getIntent()
                    .getByteArrayExtra("byteArray").length);        
    previewThumbnail.setImageBitmap(b);
}

how to put image in a bundle and pass it to another activity

So you can do it like this, but the limitation with the Parcelables is that the payload between activities has to be less than 1MB total. It's usually better to save the Bitmap to a file and pass the URI to the image to the next activity.

 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    setContentView(R.layout.my_layout);
    Bitmap bitmap = getIntent().getParcelableExtra("image");
    ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageview);
    imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
 }

How to send the bitmap into bundle

First of all convert it to a Byte array before adding it to intent, send it out, and decode.

//Convertion to byte array

  ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
  bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, stream);
  byte[] byteArray = stream.toByteArray();

Bundle b = new Bundle();
b.putByteArray("image",byteArray);


  // your fragment code 
fragment.setArguments(b);

get Value via intent

byte[] byteArray = getArgument().getByteArrayExtra("image");
Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(byteArray, 0, byteArray.length);

How to share and save the ImageView from First Activity to Third Activity

I recommend using File I/O to save the bitmap to disk. Put the path of the file into your intent bundle using putExtra and recreate the bitmap in your other screens. Putting large bitmaps into a bundle with an intent can cause TransactionTooLarge exceptions.

Take a look at Getting path of captured image in android using camera intent

How to pass image data from one activity to another activity?

In MyGridView: (someInteger is an integer that represents the index of the selected image

Intent myIntent = new Intent(this, MyImageViewActivity.class);
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putInt("image", someInteger);
myIntent.putExtras(bundle);
startActivityForResult(myIntent, 0);

In MyImageViewActivity:

Bundle bundle = this.getIntent().getExtras();
int pic = bundle.getInt("image");

of course, you can put anything in the bundle! maybe a byte array or something

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