File upload android studio

Upload File/Image to the server using Volley in Android.

Upload file/image to the server using volley in Android is a very frequently used thing. In most of the apps, we need user avatar, i.e. user profile image.

In this article, we are going to see an example to Android upload a file/image to the server with a Multipart using volley.

What is a MultiPart Request?

HttpMultipart requests are used to send heavy data or files like audio and video to the server.

Android Volley gives you a very faster and optimized environment to send heavy data or files to the server. Here I post an image file selected from the gallery.

Using Restful API

Here, I am going to use the below API URL to upload the file/image.

ROOT_URL =“http://seoforworld.com/api/v1/file-upload.php”

Example of upload file/image to a server with the multipart request using volley.

1. Creating an Android project.

• Open Android Studio and create a new project (I created UploadFile)

2. Add Dependency.

Add Volley to your project. You can quickly add it using Gradle. Extract Gradle Scripts and open build.gradle (Module: app)

So your dependencies block will look like

3. Sync Project.

Now click on Sync Project With Gradle Icon from the top menu and it will automatically download and add volley library to your project.

4. Adding Permission in AndroidMainfest.xml file.

We also need the Internet and Read and Write Storage permission. So inside AndroidManifest.xml add these permissions.

your AndroidManifest.xml file will look like as below:-

5. User Interface

Now inside activity_main.xml and write the following XML code into your activity_main.xml.

6. VolleyMultipartRequest

Here, we need to perform a multipart request. But the problem is volley doesn’t support multipart requests directly. So that is why we need to create our Custom Volley Request.

Create a java class with VolleyMultipartRequest and write the below code in that file.

7. Upload file/image to the server.

Now, the main thing to upload files/images to the server. We will do it inside the MainActivity.java file.

write the below code to your MainActivity.java file.

8. Above code explanation.

The below code is used to take permission from the device for access gallery on Button click.

In the MainActivity.java file, Function showFileChooser() is used to choose an image from the device gallery.

And, To complete the image choosing process we need to override the onActivityResult() method.

getPath() method is used to get the absolute path of the file/image.

And, uploadBitmap() method is used to upload file/image to the server.

9. Run the Project

On running the project you will get the following output.

www.maxester.com

b. Click on the upload image button and give permission.

c. Image/File Uploaded

Download Source Code

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Android Studio Upload Any Files to ASP.Net Web API

by Tan Woon How · Published March 3, 2016 · Updated April 14, 2016

In this tutorial, we like to show you how to upload files to ASP.Net Web API.

Todo
We need some kind of apps that will take photo for us and upload to server, in case user forgotten what been uploaded to server we provide another button upload all photos captured and upload as zip file to server. This tutorial will use this ASP.NET Web API code as our server to helps us receive uploading files.

Tool used
1. Android Studio 1.5.1
2. Retrofit 1.6.1
3. Picasso 2.5.2

Before you read below code, just want to make you feel comfortable with below code is working, please watch this video 😉
View Demo – Android Studio Upload Any Files to ASP.Net Web API

Android Studio Upload Any Files to ASP.Net Web API

Code
1. Let’s start create project, UploadFiles. The setting of the project are show as below images which is quite straight forward.

2. Then, create all the necessary package as below image, and we will explain in later step.

3. As i mentioned before, i’m a big fan of Retrofit, so in this post again retrofit helps us again in solving our puzzle and It’s helps most of my daily work (Thank you 🙂 ). Retrofit provide us the functionality for us to upload file which mean save us again from headache. Beside, we also use Picasso for helping us to load image into ImageView. So please navigate to app > build.gradle and copy the following contents

4. As we need save photo in phone’s SDCard and also uploading files to server, we need to grant these permission for this app, please navigate to app > src > main > AndroidManifest.xml and add the highlighted lines.

5. Add 3 buttons and ImageView into app>src>main>res>layout>activity_main.xml, code will look like below

6. helper package is where we put common function which we could share code across all packages.

Then, please navigate to app>src>main>java>com.instinctcoder.uploadfiles > helper. and create a class , FileHelper.java FileHelper is the file that we created to do some function related to file.

7. service package is the package that contains REST Service interface files that will be used with Retrofit to communicate with ASP.NET Web API.

Please navigate to com.instinctcoder.uploadfiles > rest > service and create a Interface , UploadService.java and copy the following code

We will show you 2 different ways to upload files to server, synchronous and asynchronous. UploadSync is the synchronous method is the method that need to wait for server response before able to execute the rest of the code. and this function has 1 parameter TypedFile which will be the content of the file. On other hand, Upload is asynchronous method that allow us to use callback meaning we doesn’t need to wait server response. We will show more detail in later step.

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Android Upload Image using Android Upload Service

Hello guys, in this post I came up with an easy solution for uploading files from android to server. So today we will see an example of Android Upload Image to Server. I have already posted some example of Android Upload Image to Server previously. But in this post we will use android upload service for our Android Upload Image App.

In this tutorial I will store the image file inside servers directory and in database I will store the URL of the image. For this I will use Android Upload Service library and it makes uploading files super easy. So lets see how we can do it. First we will create our server side codes.

Android Upload Image to Server Video Tutorial

• You can also go through this video tutorial to learn how to upload image from android to server.

Creating Server Side Codes for Android Upload Image

The first thing we need is to create our server side web services. For server side I am using PHP and MySQL. And for this I am using Wamp server. You can still use xampp or any other application. Now follow the steps to create your web service to handle the file upload.

• Go to localhost/phpmyadmin and create the following database table.

• Now inside your server’s root directory (c:/wamp/www) and create a new folder. I created AndroidUploadImage.
• Inside the folder create a folder named uploads, in this folder we will save all the uploaded images.
• Create a file named dbDetails.php and write the following code.

• Now create a file named upload.php and write the following code.

• Now test your script. You can use a rest client to test it I am using POSTMAN. See the below screenshot.

• If you are seeing the above response then. Your script is working fine. You can check the database and upload folder which you have created.

Database Upload Directory

• So its working absolutely fine. Now lets move ahead and create a android project.

Creating Android Studio Project

We are done with the server side coding for this Android Upload Image Example. Now lets code our android application. Follow the steps given.

• Create a Android Studio Project.
• Create a class named Constants.java and write the following code. The following class contains the path to our php file which we created. You are seeing two strings. The second it the path to the file we will create at the end of this post.

• You need to change the IP according to your system. To know the IP you can use IPCONFIG command in command prompt (windows user).
• Now we need to add android upload service to our project.

Adding Android Upload Service

• Go to your app level build.gradle file and add the following line inside dependencies block and sync your project.

• Come to activity_main.xml and write the following xml code.

• The above code will generate the following layout.

• As you can see we have two buttons, one to select image and other to upload image. We also have an EditText to enter the name for the image.
• Now come to MainActivity.java and write the following code.

• Finally add the storage and internet permission on your manifest.

• Thats it now just run your app.

• Bingo! Its working absolutely fine. Now you may need to fetch the uploaded images.

Fetching the Uploaded Images

• To fetch the images inside your server side project, create one more file named getImages.php and write the following code.

• This code will give you the following JSON.

• Now you can use the following tutorial to display the images using the above JSON.

• You can also get my source code from the link given below.

So thats it for this Android Upload Image tutorial friends. You can also use this method to upload video and any type of file to your server. Leave your comments if having any doubts or feedbacks. Thank You 🙂

Hi, my name is Belal Khan and I am a Google Developers Expert (GDE) for Android. The passion of teaching made me create this blog. If you are an Android Developer, or you are learning about Android Development, then I can help you a lot with Simplified Coding.

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117 thoughts on “Android Upload Image using Android Upload Service”

Assala-mualikum, This is a best tutorial for upload image(base64) to server using volley library. Its done well. Now I want to upload pdf to use base64——– I want know is that possible to upload pdf base64?? ………… If possible I request you to upload a tutorial for pdf upload. Thank you for your great tutorial. Happy Ramadan…

“Oops you just denied the permission” this message is displaying,images are not uploading,how to slove this.

Add permissions to manifest file.
If on server side check username and password.

how to check username and password on server

Your Code is working fine..i can able to upload image…only thing i couldnt able to upload parameter
addParameter(“id”, uniqueid) //Adding text parameter to the request

//php side
$unique_id= $_POST[‘id’];

“Oops you just denied the permission” this toast is displaying ,images are not uploading

follow same tutorial but Error during upload occur in notification…why?

1. check that u have put tyour internet permission in manifest
2. Check that your upload url is correct

Ya, I have the same problem. Why? I have checked with the upload url and also the internet permission already.

Oops you just denied the permission how to resolve these,pls help me .

deined permission message is displaying how to slove these

nice article (y)
sir,, can i request tutorial about how to implement Single Sign-On Android??
thank u sir 🙂

Amazing tutorial guys It came exactly when I needed it to build upload for our app .. Fliiby Reply

Hi Belal,
I am following your tutorials and these are very helpful for me, Thank you for tutorials.
I want the code for downloading pdf file which is stored in my database.
Could you please write the code and upload it for me.

How to upload the image that is captured with camera within the android application,, im getting trouble please help….

Belal Khan your tutorial is fantastic. It is easy to comprehend and implement. However I am getting this error in the error log in the server
“mysqli_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given in /…………../AndroidUploadImage/upload.php on line 78”

I am using postman exactly as you show and I am getting no responce and status 200 OK.

What could be the issue here?
Thanks in advance.

PS. In your tutorial you use AndroidUploadImage, but in your code you use AndroidImageUpload. Some people will scratch their head if they copy the code and find out it doesn’t work.

name and url are uploaded in mysql. but image is not uploading in the folder when i run the php code in postman.

I had the same error and what i did is to copy any image that you have and paste it in that folder and name it with the previous id, for example if your last register in database is 12 that image have to have that number, and now try to do upload again a picture using the app and it might work.

1.Check if the client has necessary permission for uploading files.
2.Check your PHP Configuration File To Check File Size Upload Limit/No Of Files/Temp Directory and Change according to your requirement.

its not able to connect the http server

getting the error on android device. File Upload Error during upload

Everything is working well for me, except one thing. supposing someone chooses not to select an image for upload, but clicks the upload button, the app crashhes! How do I prevent the app from crashing? prompting the user “please select an image”

Have you found any solution?

It’s a pity … The upload is done but the pictures do not advance to the uploads folder. What should be done ?

Error in line 79 :
Warning: mysqli_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given in C:\wamp\www\phpcode\upload.php on line 79

you did not pass the id

I have doubts to upload the audio on server. plz help me

bas bhai aise hi kam kiya kar..osm

I am getting error while uploading …is error in upload at notification area.

Have you found any solution?

i can ‘t get the file path from the gallery application keeps crashing when i i try to upload . Error on the console shows that the method getpath() is not returning the image

No longer working in Android 6.0

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You need to ask storage permission at run time to make it work on >android 5
Check this tutorial to know how https://www.simplifiedcoding.net/android-marshmallow-permissions-example/

Hello Belal. I got error Please choose a file in Postman. Please help

getMessage();
>
//displaying the response
echo json_encode($response);

//closing the connection
mysqli_close($con);
> else <
echo $response[‘error’]=true;
echo $response[‘message’]=’Please choose a file’;
>
>

/*
We are generating the file name
so this method will return a file name for the image to be upload
*/
function getFileName() <
$sql = “SELECT max(notesID) as notesID FROM notes”;
$result = mysqli_fetch_array(mysqli_query($con,$sql));

mysqli_close($con);
if($result[‘notesID’]==null)
return 1;
else
return ++$result[‘notesID’];
>
?>

sorry the code went crazy. here in pastebin http://pastebin.com/MygkttBm

I tried the php code in POSTMAN and everything is fine and i tried the code in android studio and it is working fine but once i upload the image, i get this “Error during upload”. please help

I used the same method for uploading image into filezilla server. Everything is fine but the image is not uploading into the folder created in filezilla. can you please help me?

I followed your tutorial and uploads are going through(even a 5 mb image goes through successfully. However, when i uppload another image, it overwrites the previous image. The first image was uploaded as 1.jpg. Then I uploaded a .png file and it was saved as 1.png. But when I try uploading more jpg files, it only overwrites and does not increment the number to 2 and so on. I also noticed my table returns no rows after this. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Rakesh
I am too Stuck on This Do You find the Solutions What Wrong here….Do you have any notions how to calculate response from server in the activity

hi, i meet a same problem, and i find the it can be solve just through modify some segment.

i modify code in line 33-40 to:
// getting the file filename
$filename = $fileinfo[‘filename’];

//getting the file extension
$extension = $fileinfo[‘extension’];

//file url to store in the database
$file_url = $upload_url . $filename . ‘.’ . $extension;

//file path to upload in the server
$file_path = $upload_path . $filename . ‘.’. $extension;

these code segment let picture save use thire own filename, as if your picture named “boy.jpg”, it will upload to “AndroidImageUpload/uploads” with its own name “boy.jpg”.

I appreciate your tutorial so much and it has helped me to build a good android app which I will be asking you to download and assess for improvement.

I an using this example to upload an image but I don’t want the image to be displayed on the activity but the filepath to be set on the edittext. In the process, I realised that you are not setting the filepath on the edittext.

Kindly check you observation and respond.

Thanks and regards.

hey!
i want to upload a image to asp.net server
i want to know the server side code also.

Why i am getting my image compressed?
can you give me idea?
its not the same size size i uploaded.

What if 2 or more than 2 user upload images with same name like 1.jpg then how can we differentiate in them?

Nice tutorial, one question, how do you set headers for authorization in this method?

Thanks Bro You are my saviour.
and once again thank u very very very very very very very very very very very very much

How to Upload file in Jsonobject with upload service

Hi,
Belal sir ,i am using image upload but some error to solution is tough in ,i am copy our website but no solution please help image upload in android studio

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [
function.move-uploaded-file]: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected ‘Asia/Calcutta’ for ‘IST/5.0/no DST’ instead in
/home/celeadmn/public_html/demo/upload.php on line
31

Warning: move_uploaded_file(uploads/12.html) [
function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/celeadmn/public_html/demo/upload.php on line
31

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [
function.move-uploaded-file]: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected ‘Asia/Calcutta’ for ‘IST/5.0/no DST’ instead in
/home/celeadmn/public_html/demo/upload.php on line
31

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [
function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move ‘/tmp/phpUbekSp’ to ‘uploads/12.html’ in
/home/celeadmn/public_html/demo/upload.php on line
31

ok clear you check to commend line to write cmd and you set ipconfig/all ,

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