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<REQUIRED_SIZE_WIDTH || height_tmp/2<REQUIRED_SIZE_HEIGHT)
                    break;
                width_tmp/=2;
                height_tmp/=2;
                scale*=2;
            }

            //Decode with inSampleSize
            BitmapFactory.Options o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options();
            o2.inSampleSize=scale;
            return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(b), null, o2);
        } catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
        }
        return null;
    }

Answer 2

The Android library named SiliCompressor have been optimized to do all the image compression for you. Check it on Github

Answer 3

The BitMap http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Bitmap.html class have a compress method. But you might need to scale the image createScaledBitmap, also available in the same class.