How to create a progressive JPEG image on Android

Question

I need to send images over a very low-bandwidth connection from an android phone (down to 10kByte/s) and would like to send them in progressive (interlaced) mode so that the user at the other end starts seeing the image already during the lengthy transfer. Right now, I am creating the image with the regular photo app:

Intent takePictureIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);

But this creates non-progressive photos and I have not been able to discover how to convince it to do otherwise. The second option I explored (reading and re-compressing the taken image) got foiled because the Bitmap's compress method does not allow any encoding parameters besides format name and compression factor as far as I could determine:

bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 80, out);

My preferred solution would be to instruct the photo app to save in progressive mode.

The next best option would be a Java algorithm that losslessly converts the stored jpeg to progressive (jpegtran does this on Linux, but it is in C and relies on libjepeg).

The next best would a method to specify the relevant encoding parameters to android allowing me to re-compress it, or an alternative Java library that does the same.

Further research revealed that the algorithms are already there (/system/lib/libjpeg.so) with the sources in ~/android-sdk-linux/source-tree/external/jpeg -- but there do not seem to be JNI wrappers readily available.

Answer 1

Have you seen this document?

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/imageio/plugins/jpeg/JPEGImageWriteParam.html

It seems to have write progressive support.

Alternatively, you could use e.g. OpenJPEG through JNI. See http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7697/ as a start.