如何从Android的Windows Azure移动服务中上传图像？

Question

I am new in android I am using windows azure mobile service and I am Inserting Text data successfully but now I want to Upload Image in windows azure mobile service. I know its is possible by Azure Storage I have seen this post http://chrisrisner.com/Storing-Images-from-Android-in-Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services but its confusing can anyone tell me simple step by step process to save image in windows azure mobile service.

I will be Very Grateful for you

Answer 1

The page you're looking at does not use the best recommended approach for storing image data with Azure Mobile Services. Instead, you should connect to Azure Blob Storage when you want to store a file. You can see a full tutorial of connecting to Blob Storage and saving files from an Android app here: http://chrisrisner.com/Android-and-Mobile-Services-and-Windows-Azure-Storage . Essentially the steps you follow are:

1. Create a table script / custom API in your mobile service that will save your data as well as generate a Secure Access Signature (SAS) URL from Blob Storage.
2. Call that endpoint from your mobile app.
3. Return the SAS URL from the endpoint.
4. When you get the URL back on your mobile app, use that URL to post your image file.

The way that older approach uses is to convert the image data into a format that can be stored using Azure Mobile Services SQL Database. This does work, however, it's very inefficient.