Uploading image from Android to GCS

Question

I am trying to upload an image from Android directly to Google cloud storage. But the API does not seem to work. They have some Java samples which are tied to the App engine

Answer 1

This snippet of code works for me great for uploading files from Android directly to GCS.

File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), fileName);

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

        FileBody filebody = new FileBody(file,ContentType.create(mimeType), file.getName());

        MultipartEntityBuilder multipartEntity = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();        
        multipartEntity.setMode(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
        multipartEntity.addPart("file", filebody);
        httppost.setEntity(multipartEntity.build());
        System.out.println( "executing request " + httppost.getRequestLine( ) );
        try {
            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute( httppost );
            Log.i("response", response.getStatusLine().toString());
        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        httpclient.getConnectionManager( ).shutdown( );

MultipartEntityBuilder class is not included into android standard libraries so you need to download httpclient and include into your project.