I do not think you can. Even on a PC, I donβt understand how you could do this without downloading the whole image: most image formats, such as PNG, have pixel data wired, so you need to at least unzip the IDAT block before you can start doing anything else, and it will basically decode the whole image.
In your shoes, I will try to have the server do this for me. Where do you get the image anyway? Not from the server? Then try making a WS request that will give you the correct part of the image. If the image does NOT come from the server, you can still send it to your server to return only that part of the image that you want.
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