Question

I need to post a large image from camera with max resolution (for example 12mpx). But I often get OutOfMemoryError when I decode filestream to get a byteArrayInputStream to post. Is there any other way of posting large images?

P.s. I don’t need to display or scale this photo.

Answer 1

Yes, you can post images/files by MultipartEntity, please find sample snippet, below:

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);


MultipartEntity entity = new MultipartEntity(
HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
File file= new File(filePath);
if(file.exists())
{
    entity.addPart("data", new FileBody(file));
}

httppost.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

To use multipart entity you would need to download and add httpmime-4.1.2.jar to the build path of the project.