Android, Compressing an image

Question

I am sending an image over the network via wifi or the mobile network to be stored in a server and retrieved again. I\'ve done that but due to the size of images taken by th

Answer 1

Try using the following method:

    //decodes image and scales it to reduce memory consumption
    //NOTE: if the image has dimensions which exceed int width and int height
    //its dimensions will be altered.
    private Bitmap decodeToLowResImage(byte [] b, int width, int height) {
        try {
            //Decode image size
            BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
            o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
            BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(b), null, o);

            //The new size we want to scale to
            final int REQUIRED_SIZE_WIDTH=(int)(width*0.7);
            final int REQUIRED_SIZE_HEIGHT=(int)(height*0.7);

            //Find the correct scale value. It should be the power of 2.
            int width_tmp=o.outWidth, height_tmp=o.outHeight;
            int scale=1;
            while(true){
                if(width_tmp/2