Android - Camera intent low bitmap quality [duplicate]

Answer 1

You have to save the image in the storage in order to get the full sized image. Check this: http://developer.android.com/training/camera/photobasics.html#TaskPath

Answer 2

Don't use bitmap, use uri instead.

 ImageView imageView;
 Uri image;
 String mCameraFileName;

 private void cameraIntent() {
        StrictMode.VmPolicy.Builder builder = new StrictMode.VmPolicy.Builder();
        StrictMode.setVmPolicy(builder.build());
        Intent intent = new Intent();
        intent.setAction(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);

        Date date = new Date();
        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("-mm-ss");

        String newPicFile = df.format(date) + ".jpg";
        String outPath = "/sdcard/" + newPicFile;
        File outFile = new File(outPath);

        mCameraFileName = outFile.toString();
        Uri outuri = Uri.fromFile(outFile);
        intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, outuri);
        startActivityForResult(intent, 2);
    }

  @Override
    public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
        if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
            if (requestCode == 2) {
                if (data != null) {
                    image = data.getData();
                    imageView.setImageURI(image);
                    imageView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                }
                if (image == null && mCameraFileName != null) {
                    image = Uri.fromFile(new File(mCameraFileName));
                    imageView.setImageURI(image);
                    imageView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                }
                File file = new File(mCameraFileName);
                if (!file.exists()) {
                    file.mkdir();
                }
            }
        }
    }

Answer 3

in your cameraIntent you need to specify the uri when the camera activity will save the picture with the full resolution:

cameraIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, capturedImageUri);

if you don't specify that you just receive a thumbnail in the onActivityResult. So you specify that and you read the image from the uri.

So in your onActivityResult you should do:

BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inPreferredConfig = Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888;
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(capturedImageUri, options);

that's it.