Sending photo from Android application to server side

Question

I'm about to write server side aplication(most probably it would be PHP but JAVA is also possible) and android client side aplication. I try to figure out what is the best way to send photo from android aplication to server and receive it in server side. And if this any way to optimize/serialize sending more than one picture at a time?
Please provide me some reference or hint.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

U can use HTTP post for this. get ByteArrayOutputStream and compress JPEG image and use ByteArrayBody and post it using HttpClient

        ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

        bm.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 75, bos);

        byte[] data = bos.toByteArray();

        HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();

        HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(

                "http://10.0.2.2/cfc/iphoneWebservice.cfc?returnformat=json&method=testUpload");

        ByteArrayBody bab = new ByteArrayBody(data, "forest.jpg");

        // File file= new File("/mnt/sdcard/forest.png");

        // FileBody bin = new FileBody(file);

        MultipartEntity reqEntity = new MultipartEntity(

                HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);

        reqEntity.addPart("uploaded", bab);

        reqEntity.addPart("photoCaption", new StringBody("sfsdfsdf"));

        postRequest.setEntity(reqEntity);

        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(postRequest);

        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(

                response.getEntity().getContent(), "UTF-8"));

        String sResponse;

        StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();



        while ((sResponse = reader.readLine()) != null) {

            s = s.append(sResponse);

        }

You can find related code here. http://vikaskanani.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/android-upload-image-or-file-using-http-post-multi-part/