Are zlib.compress on Python and Deflater.deflate on Java (Android) compatible?

Question

I am porting a Python application to Android and, at some point, this application has to communicate with a Web Service, sending it compressed data.

In order to do t

Answer 1

Does byte[] input = stringToCompress.getBytes("utf-8"); help? In case your platform's default encoding is not UTF-8, this will force the encoding String -> bytes to use UTF-8. Also, the same goes for the last line of your code where you create a new String - you may want to explicitly specify UTF-8 as the decoding Charset.