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Upload image to a web service using HttpURLConnection

The following code snippet can be used to upload an image to web service in Android. After getting a Bitmap object from the camera or other source, you can compress the create an HttpURLConnection and attach the image to the request body.

July 30, 2015 · 1 min read

The following code snippet can be used to upload an image to web service in Android. After getting a Bitmap object from the camera or other source, you can compress the create an HttpURLConnection and attach the image to the request body.

try {
    URL url = new URL(SERVER_POST_URL);
    HttpURLConnection c = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    c.setDoInput(true);
    c.setRequestMethod("POST");
    c.setDoOutput(true);
    c.connect();
 
    OutputStream output = c.getOutputStream();
    bitmap.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 50, output);
    output.close();
 
    Scanner result = new Scanner(c.getInputStream());
    String response = result.nextLine();
    Log.e("ImageUploader", "Error uploading image: " + response);
 
    result.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
        Log.e("ImageUploader", "Error uploading image", e);
}

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