Android post high res image running out of memory

Question

Good day fellow developers.

I\'m busy for android to upload images from a app.
I also got it working (code will follow below).
But when i send large images (

Answer 1

When using ByteArrayOutputStream and then calling #toByteArray() you've effectively doubled the amount of memory the JPEG is using. ByteArrayOutputStream keeps an internal array with the encoded JPEG and when you call #toByteArray() it allocates a new array & copies the data from the internal buffer.

Consider encoding large bitmaps to a temporary file & using FileOutputStream and FileInputStream to encode and send the image.

Without "uploading" - your app survives "nicely" with the just the huge bitmap in memory I assume?

Edit: FileBody

File img = new File(this is where you put the path of your image)
ContentBody cb = new FileBody(img, "File" + pad(random.nextInt(9999) + 1) + ".jpg", "image/jpg", null);
MultipartEntity reqEntity = new multipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
reqEntity.addPart("Filedata", cb);
reqEntity.addPart("dropboxId", new StringBody(URLEncoder.encode(uid)));