android - Can BitmapFactory.decodeFile handle .ICO (Windows icons) files?

Question

I am working on Android. Trying to display the "favicon" (aka "shortcut icon") or web pages.

So I already have the code to get the URL of this icon from any website, and download it onto my Android.

Now I am trying to make a Bitmap out of it, but always get null as a result.

The code:

String src = String.format("file:///data/data/com.intuitiveui.android/files/%s",prefName);
// prefName is "facebook.ico", and I do see tht file in my DDMS file browser. It's
// a valid icon file.

Bitmap res = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(src);
// This returns null

TIA

Answer 1

Here is a list of the supported Android media formats. ICO is not among them. You might be able to find a Java-based ICO decoder, though.