Question

I have an android app which let the user to submit a form , now this form can have 9 bitmaps (MAX). now my code run well , but it takes too long to upload the images . is there a better way to upload images ??

my code :

Iterator<String> it = car_images.iterator();
                int i = 0;
                while (it.hasNext()) {
                    String imagepath = it.next();
                    ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                    Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(imagepath);
                    b.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, bos);
                    byte[] data = bos.toByteArray();
                    entity.addPart("image_" + i, new ByteArrayBody(data,

                    "myImage.jpg"));
                    Log.d("image loaded", "image_" + i);
                    ++i;

                }
                put.setEntity(entity);
                HttpResponse repsone = client.execute(put);

Answer 1

You can run the upload tasks in parallel using Threads, which could speedup the upload. Android developer’s guide has good documentation (with sample code) available on Threads and process.