How to set the size and quality of a picture taken with the android camera?

Question

I wrote this code that takes a picture with the camera then converts it to a jpeg file and uploads it to Parse.com as a ParseFile.

The problem is that the picture is really small (153 x 204 px) and really low quality.

I need the picture to be at least 5 MP quality and to crop it to 300x300 px.

Here is the code I use til now.

 @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_add_picture);

        img = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imgV);

        Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);

        startActivityForResult(cameraIntent, CAMERA_PIC_REQUEST);

    }


    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        byte[] image_byte_array;
              ParseObject post_object = new ParseObject("Gallery");
            Bundle extras = data.getExtras();
            Bitmap image = (Bitmap) extras.get("data");
            ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            image.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, stream);
            image_byte_array = stream.toByteArray();
            ParseFile picture_file = new ParseFile("Picture.jpg", image_byte_array);
            picture_file.saveInBackground();
            post_object.put("photo", picture_file);
            post_object.saveInBackground();
        }

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Check this answer here.

A camera intent return a thumbnail by default, so you need to fetch the full image.

Derek's solution is right, but you have to improve it.

the real juice lies in fetching the full image which happens here -

thumbnail = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(
                            getContentResolver(), imageUri);
                    imgView.setImageBitmap(thumbnail);
                    imageurl = getRealPathFromURI(imageUri);    

full path will be given by getRealPathFromURI().