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I have an android app Amazicons in android market. The problem is that it is an emoticon sharing app and i want that when the images from the app are shared on the whatsapp, they look like emoticons meaning the size should be small. Currently if i share an image from the app, the size is very big and does not seem like an emoticon.

If i try to scale the image down while sharing, using createScaledBitmap method, the image breaks really badly. Whatapp scales up the image again when it sends it so it breaks as i scaled it down earlier. Can someone help?

Swati Rawat
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Can someone help?

not really. WhatsApp sends the image as a scaled up images to fit the screen. There's nothing your app can do to change WhatsApp (or any other app) behavior.

Budius
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  • thanks for replying. I also thought the same thing that i cannot change the behaviour of other apps but i have seen some other apps sharing small images without break. Look at this for example. One of the screenshots shows a small size emoticons without break. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plantpurple.emojidom – Swati Rawat Jun 16 '14 at 14:32
  • did you actually download and tested it? screenshots can be (and quite often are) easily photoshoped. – Budius Jun 16 '14 at 18:44
  • yes i did. I can see that the images being shared are centered in a white background. Maybe that can be the solution. – Swati Rawat Jun 17 '14 at 12:30
  • good catch. So there you go, the extra background makes the actual icon seems smaller. – Budius Jun 17 '14 at 12:33