Android: Compress Bitmap from Uri

Question

Take a picture with the normal smartphone camera.

Ok I've been Googling this for a while now, and everyone seems to use something like the following:

Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(getContentResolver().openInputStream(fileUri));
ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
bm.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 25, out);
Bitmap decoded = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(out.toByteArray()));

I use this to check the file size:

@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB_MR1)
protected int sizeOf(Bitmap data) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB_MR1) {
        return data.getRowBytes() * data.getHeight();
    } else {
        return data.getByteCount();
    }
}

The Bitmap is not getting any smaller, before and after:

Log.d("image", sizeOf(bm)+"");
Log.d("image", sizeOf(decoded)+"");

Results:

11-05 02:51:52.739: D/image(2558): 20155392
11-05 02:51:52.739: D/image(2558): 20155392

Pointers?

Answer:

BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inSampleSize = 50;
Bitmap bmpSample = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(fileUri.getPath(), options);

Log.d("image", sizeOf(bmpPic)+"");

ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();                
bmSample.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 1, out);
byte[] byteArray = out.toByteArray();

Log.d("image", byteArray.length/1024+"");

Can you post it in code? I have the feeling that you may be logging size of same data.. hence output is same.. — Amulya Khare, Nov 05 '13 at 03:26
@AmulyaKhare I thought so aswell, I double checked though, I know the output is on the same second (weird :S). — basickarl, Nov 05 '13 at 04:26
See my answer.. explains why the output is same.. if you are trying to display a compressed version on the screen you should be using `inSampleSize` .. read this http://stackoverflow.com/a/11061315/827110 — Amulya Khare, Nov 05 '13 at 04:38

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 05 '13 at 04:36

The compress method, as mentioned in the documentation:

Write a compressed version of the bitmap to the specified outputstream. The bitmap can be reconstructed by passing a corresponding inputstream to BitmapFactory.decodeStream()

Thus the variable out now contains the compressed bitmap. Since you check the size after calling decodeStream the bitmap is decompressed and returned to you. Therefore the size is same.

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