Send image via json in android

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Hi I am working with android.I want to send an image from server to android and I had done it with sending url from server.How can I send an image from server to android app via json?? is it possible??

you send the url with the json. parse the json retrieve it and download the image — Raghunandan, Mar 21 '14 at 05:32
For that you can use JSON parsing and retrieve your image url through it and download that image to your android app. — Piyush, Mar 21 '14 at 05:34

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

It is possible if you can convert your image at your server to a Base64 encoding string. Then you can send the string to your app via JSON.

You can use Apache Common IOUtils:

Base64.encode(FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(imageFile));

On your app you can convert the string to image, example in this link How to convert a Base64 string into a BitMap image to show it in a ImageView?

Hope that helps

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 21 '14 at 05:36

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It is possible to send binary data within Json but you have to escape the binary data (UTF-8 encoding and use Base64.) This will increase the data size. Why not just include the path in JSON and fetch/load it?

answered Mar 21 '14 at 05:36

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