Question

I’m a french guy, so, I’m sorry for my english…

I’m developing an Android App which communicate with a PHP REST service. So, when I try to encode an image file into Base64 like this :

InputStream fileInputStream = context.getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fileInputStream);
StringWriter out = new StringWriter();
int b;
while ((b = in.read()) != -1)
    out.write(b);
out.flush();
out.close();
in.close();
String encoded = new String(android.util.Base64.encode(out.toString()
            .getBytes(), android.util.Base64.DEFAULT));

On server side, I make :

$data=base64_decode(chunk_split($base64BinaryData));

The result is that my image file is corrupted!

INFO : the image is made by an Intent to android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE Activity in Emulator mode (avd 5554)

I’ve already read lots of discussions about similar problem but nothing fix my bug.

thanks for help

Regards,

Answer 1

I’m assuming that:

out.toString().getBytes()

is wrong. What type is the “out”? If that’s an image, then you need to get the raw bytes of the image, not the bytes of the string representation of the object.