How to reduce the size of image before uploading it to firebase storage?

Question

I have made an social app for image and video sharing.However,its taking too much time for loading the image.I am using the glide library.Please, tell me how can I reduce the size of image picked up from gallery without considerable change in quality of image (like Instagram do) and then upload it to firebase storage.Please help!

Answer 1

StorageReference childRef2 = [your firebase storage path]
storageRef.child(UserDetails.username+"profilepic.jpg");
                    Bitmap bmp = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(getContentResolver(), filePath);
                    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                    bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 25, baos);
                    byte[] data = baos.toByteArray();
                    //uploading the image
                    UploadTask uploadTask2 = childRef2.putBytes(data);
                    uploadTask2.addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<UploadTask.TaskSnapshot>() {
                        @Override
                        public void onSuccess(UploadTask.TaskSnapshot taskSnapshot) {
                            Toast.makeText(Profilepic.this, "Upload successful", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        }
                    }).addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception e) {
                            Toast.makeText(Profilepic.this, "Upload Failed -> " + e, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        }
                    });`

just go ahead and do above steps it will reduce your image size and upload it on firebase it reduce the image size upto 1 to 2 mb like on my experience 4mb file became 304kb .

filepath is and File object of your selected image. :)

Answer 2

Here i am using this code to upload compressed image on firebase storeage

@Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
        if(requestCode==RC_PHOTO_PICKER && resultCode==RESULT_OK)
        {
            mProgressBar.setVisibility(ProgressBar.VISIBLE);
            Uri selectedImageUri = data.getData();

            Bitmap bmp = null;
            try {
                bmp = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(getContentResolver(), selectedImageUri);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

            //here you can choose quality factor in third parameter(ex. i choosen 25) 
            bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 25, baos);
            byte[] fileInBytes = baos.toByteArray();

           StorageReference photoref = chatPhotosStorageReference.child(selectedImageUri.getLastPathSegment());

           //here i am uploading
           photoref.putBytes(fileInBytes).addOnSuccessListener(this, new OnSuccessListener<UploadTask.TaskSnapshot>() {
                       public void onSuccess(UploadTask.TaskSnapshot taskSnapshot) {
                                          // When the image has successfully uploaded, we get its download URL
                           mProgressBar.setVisibility(ProgressBar.INVISIBLE);

                           Uri downloadUrl = taskSnapshot.getDownloadUrl();
                           String id = chatRoomDataBaseReference.push().getKey();
                           String time = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());

                           // Set the download URL to the message box, so that the user can send it to the database
                           FriendlyMessageModel friendlyMessage = new FriendlyMessageModel(id,null, userId, downloadUrl.toString(),time);
                   chatRoomDataBaseReference.child(id).setValue(friendlyMessage);
                                       }
                   });
        }
    }