MediaStore.Images.Media lowers the quality of the image stored to gallery

Question

I'm saving the screenshot of the app to Gallery via -

//screenshot
private void screenshot()
{
    Uri photo = lomography();
    String photopath = photo.getPath();
    try {
        MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage(getContentResolver(), photopath, "name" , "desc");
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

The image stored at the photopath is of high quality:

But when I navigate to Gallery and open the same photo, this is the low JPEG version with several compression artifacts:

Why does the Gallery image a JPEG version when the original file is a PNG? How can I save the high res version to the gallery?

I read here that the trick is in 'Register image with ContentResolver::insert'.

But I'm using getContentResolver.

Answer 1

This was the answer. I mean 'this' was the missing part in the code.

Instead of 'MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage(getContentResolver()'. I should have used MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage(this.getContentResolver()

Problem solved.

Answer 2

To fix this issue, open the delcaration of the "MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage" method, copy and paste the code you need into your own class, then where its compressing the image at 50% change it to 100%.