RGB888 to RGB565 and vice versa causing loss of info?

I have the following code to convert RGB565 to RGB888 and vice versa:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO code application logic here
    System.out.println(Integer.toHexString(RGB888ToRGB565(0x11ffffff)));
    System.out.println(Integer.toHexString(RGB565ToRGB888(RGB888ToRGB565(0x7FC9FF))));
}

static int RGB888ToRGB565(int red, int green, int blue) {
    final int B = (blue >>> 3) & 0x001F;
    final int G = ((green >>> 2) << 5) & 0x07E0;
    final int R = ((red >>> 3) << 11) & 0xF800;

    return (R | G | B);
}

static int RGB888ToRGB565(int aPixel) {
    //aPixel <<= 8;
    //System.out.println(Integer.toHexString(aPixel));
    final int red = (aPixel >> 16) & 0xFF;
    final int green = (aPixel >> 8) & 0xFF;
    final int blue = (aPixel) & 0xFF;
    return RGB888ToRGB565(red, green, blue);
}

static int RGB565ToRGB888(int aPixel) {
    final int b = (((aPixel) & 0x001F) << 3) & 0xFF;
    final int g = (((aPixel) & 0x07E0) >>> 2) & 0xFF;
    final int r = (((aPixel) & 0xF800) >>> 8) & 0xFF;
    // return RGBA
    return 0x000000ff | (r << 24) | (g << 16) | (b << 8);
}

Problem is in the second line when it gets transformed back to rgb888 I get a loss of color information. Can anyone who knows more about bitshifting and masking help me out?

Thanks in advance!

Isn't this line wrong?

final int g = (((aPixel) & 0x07E0) >>> 2) & 0xFF;

should be:

final int g = (((aPixel) & 0x07E0) >>> 3) & 0xFF;

To my eyes the rest of your code looks OK. I don't know if that explains it. Otherwise you'd probably have to define what "that much loss" is according to what test.