cover art on android

Question

I am developing a sort of media player for android. The question is how can i get the cover art of audio file on android. For example the default android media player shows album covers when listing albums, how can i get this artworks.

Answer 1

Uri sArtworkUri = Uri.parse("content://media/external/audio/albumart");
Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(sArtworkUri, album_id);
ContentResolver res = context.getContentResolver();
InputStream in = res.openInputStream(uri);
Bitmap artwork = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);

More complete sample code can be found in Android Music player source here https://github.com/android/platform_packages_apps_music/blob/master/src/com/android/music/MusicUtils.java method getArtworkQuick.