Today most of android application’s allow you to click image and upload to web. In this post i explain you how to create application in android which access your mobile camera, click image and upload to server. This post is very help full for those who is new to android and need to upload image to server.
Step 3. Now open your mainactivity.xml file and add ImageView and add two button one for click image and second is to upload image o server.
Step 4. Open your MainActivity.java file inside your package. Now when we click on button to click image we need to open default camera app by passing intent. I create method inside my class to do this.
Step 5. When image is click we need to get the image and need to display in image view so i use onActivityResult method to do this
Step 6. Now when user click on upload button we start uploading our image to server. Before uploading image i convert image to base 64 using base64 class and i also use httpclient-4.1-beta.jar to upload.
Capture image from Application
Step 1. Create new android project in your Android Studio or Eclipse.
Step 2. Open your AndroidManifest.xml file where we add permission to access camera, write external storage, internet permission.
<uses-permission
android:name="android.hardware.Camera"
android:required="true"></uses-feature>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"></uses-permission>
Step 3. Now open your mainactivity.xml file and add ImageView and add two button one for click image and second is to upload image o server.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MyActivity">
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/Imageprev"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="400dp" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/cpic"
android:text="Click Image"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/Imageprev" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/up"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Upload Image"
android:layout_below="@+id/cpic"
android:layout_centerInParent="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
Step 4. Open your MainActivity.java file inside your package. Now when we click on button to click image we need to open default camera app by passing intent. I create method inside my class to do this.
private void clickpic() {
// Check Camera
if (getApplicationContext().getPackageManager().hasSystemFeature(
PackageManager.FEATURE_CAMERA)) {
// Open default camera
Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, fileUri);
// start the image capture Intent
startActivityForResult(intent, 100);
} else {
Toast.makeText(getApplication(), "Camera not supported", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}
Step 5. When image is click we need to get the image and need to display in image view so i use onActivityResult method to do this
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
if (requestCode == 100 && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
selectedImage = data.getData();
photo = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data");
// Cursor to get image uri to display
String[] filePathColumn = {MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA};
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(selectedImage,
filePathColumn, null, null, null);
cursor.moveToFirst();
int columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(filePathColumn[0]);
picturePath = cursor.getString(columnIndex);
cursor.close();
Bitmap photo = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data");
ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.Imageprev);
imageView.setImageBitmap(photo);
}
}
Step 6. Now when user click on upload button we start uploading our image to server. Before uploading image i convert image to base 64 using base64 class and i also use httpclient-4.1-beta.jar to upload.
Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(picturePath);
ByteArrayOutputStream bao = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
bm.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 90, bao);
byte[] ba = bao.toByteArray();
ba1 = Base64.encodeBytes(ba);
Upload image to server:
public class uploadToServer extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, String> {
private ProgressDialog pd = new ProgressDialog(MyActivity.this);
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
pd.setMessage("Wait image uploading!");
pd.show();
}
@Override
protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("base64", ba1));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("ImageName", System.currentTimeMillis() + ".jpg"));
try {
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(URL);
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
String st = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
Log.v("log_tag", "In the try Loop" + st);
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.v("log_tag", "Error in http connection " + e.toString());
}
return "Success";
}
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
super.onPostExecute(result);
pd.hide();
pd.dismiss();
}
}
Complete code:
package com.clickanduploadpic;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.MediaStore;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.Toast;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
Button btpic, btnup;
private Uri fileUri;
String picturePath;
Uri selectedImage;
Bitmap photo;
String ba1;
public static String URL = "Paste your URL here";
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_my);
btpic = (Button) findViewById(R.id.cpic);
btpic.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
clickpic();
}
});
btnup = (Button) findViewById(R.id.up);
btnup.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
upload();
}
});
}
private void upload() {
// Image location URL
Log.e("path", "----------------" + picturePath);
// Image
Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(picturePath);
ByteArrayOutputStream bao = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
bm.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 90, bao);
byte[] ba = bao.toByteArray();
ba1 = Base64.encodeBytes(ba);
Log.e("base64", "-----" + ba1);
// Upload image to server
new uploadToServer().execute();
}
private void clickpic() {
// Check Camera
if (getApplicationContext().getPackageManager().hasSystemFeature(
PackageManager.FEATURE_CAMERA)) {
// Open default camera
Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, fileUri);
// start the image capture Intent
startActivityForResult(intent, 100);
} else {
Toast.makeText(getApplication(), "Camera not supported", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
if (requestCode == 100 && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
selectedImage = data.getData();
photo = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data");
// Cursor to get image uri to display
String[] filePathColumn = {MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA};
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(selectedImage,
filePathColumn, null, null, null);
cursor.moveToFirst();
int columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(filePathColumn[0]);
picturePath = cursor.getString(columnIndex);
cursor.close();
Bitmap photo = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data");
ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.Imageprev);
imageView.setImageBitmap(photo);
}
}
public class uploadToServer extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, String> {
private ProgressDialog pd = new ProgressDialog(MyActivity.this);
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
pd.setMessage("Wait image uploading!");
pd.show();
}
@Override
protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("base64", ba1));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("ImageName", System.currentTimeMillis() + ".jpg"));
try {
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(URL);
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
String st = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
Log.v("log_tag", "In the try Loop" + st);
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.v("log_tag", "Error in http connection " + e.toString());
}
return "Success";
}
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
super.onPostExecute(result);
pd.hide();
pd.dismiss();
}
}
}
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