Android: Not able to get original photo captured by camera (Able to read compress photo only)
android, android-camera, android-camera-intent, photo
Solution
You are using the Intent to capture the image using `ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE`. If you normally starts your camera using Intent then it will return image as a bitmap in onActivityResult() but it will be for thumbnail purpose.
If you want to get full resolution image from the camera then you should provide a file with the intent which you are firing to start the camera activity.
You can do like below
Intent i = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
File out = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
out = new File(out, imagename);
i.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, Uri.fromFile(out));
startActivityForResult(i, CAMERA_RESULT);
Here there is a `MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT` parameter which takes a Uri of the file in which you want your camera to write a images.
For more information you can refer below example
Capture full resolution image from camera
Problem
In my application I capture photo by android camera and then I want to send it to the server. For this I use Client Socket programming. I convert the capture photo into bytearray(byte[]) and then send it to the server. Every thing work perfactally. Problem is there I am not able to send original photo to the server. Thumbnail photo is sended by the android mobile phone. But when I capture photo by the camera then original photo is there in Gallery. How to get this original photo to use in my application? My Code: ``` Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE); cameraIntent.putExtra("outputFormat",Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG); cameraIntent.putExtra("return-data", true); startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(cameraIntent, "Select Picture"), CAMERA_REQUEST); ``` And in onActivityResult method: ``` @Override protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data); if (requestCode == CAMERA_REQUEST) { Bitmap photo = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data"); // byte[] a = (byte[]) data.getExtras().getByteArray("data"); // I also use this but not work ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); photo.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, bos); byte[] bitmapdata = bos.toByteArray(); } } ``` in bitmapdata photo is there but compressed photo not the original. Some of people say that, change quality field of compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, bos); in between 0 to 100 but nothing will happen. -- >> is there any other way also to get original photo which is captured by the camera -- >> When The photo is in folder of my computer then I read this photo in the file by giving the path. ex- File file = new File(c:\newphoto\image.jpg); . can I use this code in android to read original photo because I know the name and location of photo. If yes then what is the path to read photo in gallery. Is this work if I give path as: \DCIM\Camera\photoName.jpg. -- >> Or some change need in my current code and it will work fine?