Blurry Pixel Paint On Scaled Canvas Drawbitmap On Samsung Devices

Some users encountered blurry pixels issue on Samsung devices. I don't have any Samsung device to check, but there is no problems with phones I have. I can't understand what is dif

Solution 1:

Your bitmap looks filtered. To fix this, you can call:

backgroundPaint.setFilterBitmap(false)

The question then becomes, why does it only appear to do this on Samsung devices? Obviously, app programmers must be able to predict which state their Paint objects are in, otherwise their apps will break (as yours did).

So, I ran this past a few devices in my test lab. It appears that the default isFilterBitmap() setting (FILTER_BITMAP_FLAG) changed on API 29, although I'm unable to find it in the source code (if anyone can find it, or has more insight, please add a comment, or suggest an edit!)

Device                API level     isFilterBitmap() default
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Pixel 3 XL            29            true
Pixel 2 XL emulator   29            true
Pixel 2 XL emulator   28            false
Pixel 2 emulator      26            false
Samsung S6            25            false
Samsung S4            21            false
Droid RAZR            16            false