Android set contact photo good quality without pixilization

Question

I'm developing app to provide and set pictures for contacts from social networks, and I'm already figure out how to set picture to contact, but when I do this programmatically picture is stored in lower quality. For example here is 2 examples, first picture is set with my app, second with native android contacts app (source picture is exactly the same for both cases):

First example

With my app:

With native app:

Second example

With my app:

With native app:

You can see pixilization on the hands and other parts.

The code I've used to set contact picture:

public static boolean setContactPhoto(long contactId, byte[] photo) {
    ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver();
    ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
    long photoId = -1;
    long rawContactId = -1;
    Cursor rawContactsCursor = cr.query(
            ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_URI,
            new String[]{ContactsContract.RawContacts._ID},
            String.format("%s=%d", ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTACT_ID, contactId),
            null,
            null
    );
    while (rawContactsCursor.moveToNext()) {
        rawContactId = rawContactsCursor.getLong(rawContactsCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.RawContacts._ID));
        String where = String.format(
                "%s=%d AND %s=='%s'",
                ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID,
                rawContactId,
                ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE,
                ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE
        );
        Cursor dataCursor = cr.query(
                ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,
                new String[]{ContactsContract.Data._ID},
                where,
                null,
                null
        );
        if (dataCursor.moveToFirst()) {
            photoId = dataCursor.getLong(dataCursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data._ID));
            dataCursor.close();
            break;
        }
        dataCursor.close();
    }
    rawContactsCursor.close();

    if (rawContactId < 0) return false;

    values.put(ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID, rawContactId);
    values.put(ContactsContract.Data.IS_SUPER_PRIMARY, 1);
    values.put(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.PHOTO, photo);
    values.put(ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Photo.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE);

    if (photoId < 0) {
        return cr.insert(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, values) != null;
    } else {
        return cr.update(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, values, String.format("%s=%d", ContactsContract.Data._ID, photoId), null) == 1;
    }
}

My phone has 540x960 resolution, so source pictures are 960x960, this is strange, but if I try to set 540x960 picture it is cropped from all sides and scaled up, so pixilization is bigger.

So, how to avoid such pixilization setting up contact picture programmatically?

we can't see the images.... – android developer Aug 15 '16 at 10:08 — android developer, Aug 15 '16 at 10:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 08 '14 at 13:42

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As described in the documentation, the .photo field hold the "Thumbnail photo of the raw contact."

I think you have to set the PHOTO_FILE_ID used to "accessing full-size photos by photo file ID".

See the related ContactsContract.DisplayPhoto

answered Mar 08 '14 at 13:42

BrainCrash

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Am I right, I have to write bitmap data to temp directory and set PHOTO_FILE_ID and then delete temp bitmap file? Can you give some code snippet? – Luft-on Mar 08 '14 at 16:55

Android set contact photo good quality without pixilization

First example

With my app:

With native app:

Second example

With my app:

With native app:

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