FTPClient in android convert image to bitmap

Question

Help!! i have installed ApacheCommons.net FTPClient. As i need to download a PNG file via ftp. The stream downloads but iam having trouble converting it into a Bitmap so i can save to local storage.

        mFTPClient.connect("path");
        mFTPClient.login("anonymous","nobody");
        mFTPClient.enterLocalPassiveMode();
        mFTPClient.changeWorkingDirectory("/fax");
        InputStream inStream = mFTPClient.retrieveFileStream("nweimage.PNG");
        InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(inStream, "UTF8");

Been trying to use BitmapFactory to convert it, but just keep getting null return.

Any pointers

Cheers

Why would you convert a png file to a Bitmap first? You are using a ftp component. The FTP protocol is for transferring files. So nothing easier than download the file to disk directly. — greenapps, Sep 23 '16 at 10:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 23 '16 at 11:24

This is how i got around it. Thanks greenapps for making me think down a different route

     mFTPClient.connect("path");
        mFTPClient.login("anonymous","nobody");
        mFTPClient.enterLocalPassiveMode();
        mFTPClient.changeWorkingDirectory("/fax");
        mFTPClient.setControlEncoding("UTF-8");
        mFTPClient.setFileType(FTPClient.BINARY_FILE_TYPE);
    try{
            FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);

            boolean status = mFTPClient.retrieveFile("image.PNG", out);
            out.flush();
            out.close();

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

FTPClient in android convert image to bitmap

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