How to display dynamic bitmaps in TextView?

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I have seen some examples of external bitmap files being shown in TextView control. In my case, I get the bitmap as binary data from a database. I need to show the bitmap along with some text in TextView control. I am wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. An example would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your help.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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Images are displayed in a TextView by incorporating an ImageSpan into the Spannable that is the "text" shown by a TextView.

See SpannableString with Image example for the basic mechanics. In that example, they use a Drawable resource, but there is an ImageSpan constructor that takes a Bitmap, which you could create via a BitmapFactory and obtain from wherever you need to.

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