Android Question Bitmaps To SQL Database Without Cacheing

Sub CreateScaledBitmap(Original As Bitmap, Width As Int, Height As Int, Filter As Boolean) As Bitmap

    Dim r As Reflector
       Dim b As Bitmap
       b = r.RunStaticMethod("android.graphics.Bitmap", "createScaledBitmap", _
          Array As Object(Original, Width, Height, Filter), _
          Array As String("android.graphics.Bitmap", "java.lang.int", "java.lang.int", "java.lang.boolean"))
       Return b

End Sub

bmp = CreateScaledBitmap(bmp, 112, 150, True)                'create the thumbnail

Dim Buffer() As Byte
Dim out As OutputStream

out.InitializeToBytesArray(0)
bmp.WriteToStream(out,100,"PNG")    'This statement can confuse.  It has nothing to do
                                    'with preparing to write PNG files, it is merely an avenue to the stream    
out.Close
Buffer = out.ToBytesArray

        'Use an 'UPDATE/WHERE to write the Buffer to a Blob field in the database