So, to send an image to a web server i need to encode it

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Asked: June 15, 20262026-06-15T23:00:00+00:00 2026-06-15T23:00:00+00:00

So, to send an image to a web server i need to encode it

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So, to send an image to a web server i need to encode it to base64 and later decode on the server side.

This is what i am following.

But i get the OutOfMemoryException, at this line of code:

httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));

And the image size of 1mb. So, any alternate way to do this?

I read this:

Sending images using Http Post

which recommends to use MultipartEntity. But where exactly can i find those libraries? because 1 of the links is broken.

Code:

Uri selectedImageUri = data.getData();
String selectedImagePath = getPath(selectedImageUri);

try {
    File imageFile = new File(selectedImagePath);
    Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(imageFile
            .getAbsolutePath());
    setImage.setImageBitmap(bitmap);

    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, baos);
    byte[] b = baos.toByteArray();
    base64code = Base64.encodeToString(b, Base64.DEFAULT);
    } catch (Exception e) {

    e.printStackTrace();
    }

Probably 1 way might be to reduce the quality. But if i set it to 20 or 30 and the image is already a low quality 1(taken from a low end device). I might get a bad quality image.

Doing something like check the size and reduce the quality depending on that. I don’t think is a good idea.

Thank You