Question

When I try to upload images or larger files from my android app it crashes with an OutOfMemoryException. Im wondering if there are any alternate ways of doing this.

Ive had the application crash in two different spots:

Base64.encodeToString(bytes, Base64.DEFAULT);

And here where the base64 string is one of the values in the nameValuPairs collection.

HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(uo.WebServiceURL);
UrlEncodedFormEntity entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs); // On this line
httppost.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse response = client.execute(httppost);

Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you do it like that, the whole POST must be buffered in memory.
This is because it needs to send the Content-Length header first.

Instead, I think you want to use the Apache HTTP libraries, including
http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/entity/FileEntity.html
. That will let it figure out the length before reading the file. You
can use this answer as a starting point. But the second parameter to
the FileEntity constructor should be a mime type (like image/png,
text/html, etc.).

Posting a large file in Android

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As Schnapple says your question seems very broad and is confusing to read and understand.

Here is some general code to send a HTTP POST and get a response from a server though that may be helpful.

public String postPage(String url, File data, boolean returnAddr) {

    ret = null;

    httpClient.getParams().setParameter(ClientPNames.COOKIE_POLICY, CookiePolicy.RFC_2109);

    httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
    response = null;

    FileEntity tmp = null;       

    tmp = new FileEntity(data,"UTF-8");

    httpPost.setEntity(tmp);

    try {
        response = httpClient.execute(httpPost,localContext);
    } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
        System.out.println("HTTPHelp : ClientProtocolException : "+e);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        System.out.println("HTTPHelp : IOException : "+e);
    } 
            ret = response.getStatusLine().toString();

            return ret;
}