Apps How to access Image stored in mysql using android application

[velm40]

Please help me, i need to access image file stored in mysql through android application. I stored data in blob format mysql. I have a REST web service to access data from mysql db, after retrieving that the response in JSON format, i am trying to convert it into bitmap, but it is giving null. Please give some suggestion to solve my problem.

 

[NebulaBytes]

Can you be more specific? What methods to you use to convert json to bitmap, how you doing it, etc.

You sure you retrieved that json data properly?

 

[velm40]

Thanks for your reply NebulaBytes...i solved my problem..Problem i faced was that, i retrieved response in json format from server, which contains image data in ordinary string. then i am trying to convert it into bitmap in client side, but it returned me null.

I think now you understand what my problem was...

Then i found the reason behind this...that is i am not doing any encoding(Base64) in server side to convert the image data into string, which can be decoded in client side to get actual image data. After doing this i can get the image perfectly in client side... again thanks for your reply..

One more doubt, i need to know that is that the only way to retrieve image data from server using REST Service?..