Saving a bitmap image to an SD card in Android

Question

I ran into some strange problem with my Android code. I have an image in the Bitmap variable and you want to save this file to the SD card. I am using the following code,

Bitmap IMAGE // Loaded from internet servers.;
try {
    File _sdCard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
    File _picDir  = new File(_sdCard, "MyDirectory");
    _picDir.mkdirs();

    File _picFile = new File(_picDir,  "MyImage.jpg");
    FileOutputStream _fos = new FileOutputStream(_picFile);
    IMAGE.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, _fos);
    _fos.flush();
    _fos.close();
    Toast.makeText(this, "Image Downloaded", 7000).show();
} catch (Exception ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
    Toast.makeText(this, ex.getMessage(), 7000).show();
}

I use Sony Experia Arc as my test device, when the phone is connected to my computer, the code works well, it stores the image, and also displays it in the gallery. But when I disconnect the phone from my computer and test the application, it does not save the image and does not show any exceptions.

Answer 1

use this function

 void saveImage() {

    String root = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString();
    File myDir = new File(root + "/saved_images");

    String fname = "Image.jpg";
    File file = new File (myDir, fname);
    if (file.exists ()) file.delete (); 
    try {
           FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);
           myBitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 90, out);
           out.flush();
           out.close();

    } catch (Exception e) {
           e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

, Android,

Answer 2

ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        thumbnail.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, bytes);
        //4
        File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+File.separator +        "image.jpg");
        try {
            file.createNewFile();
            FileOutputStream fo = new FileOutputStream(file);
            //5
            fo.write(bytes.toByteArray());
            fo.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Answer 3

**This Code Cover the Following Topics**

1. Save a bitmap Image on sdcard a jpeg
2. Create a folder on sdcard
3. Create every file Separate name
4. Every file save with date and time
5. Resize the image in very small size
6. Best thing image Quality fine not effected from Resizing


The following method is used to create an image file using the bitmap

public void createImageFromBitmap (bmp bitmap) {

    FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = null;
    try {

        // create a File object for the parent directory
        File wallpaperDirectory = new File("/sdcard/Capture/");
        // have the object build the directory structure, if needed.
        wallpaperDirectory.mkdirs();

        //Capture is folder name and file name with date and time
        fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(String.format(
                "/sdcard/Capture/%d.jpg",
                System.currentTimeMillis()));

        // Here we Resize the Image ...
        ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100,
                byteArrayOutputStream); // bm is the bitmap object
        byte[] bsResized = byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray();


        fileOutputStream.write(bsResized);
        fileOutputStream.close();


    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
    }
}


   and add this in manifest

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />