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Compress Images Size in Phimpme Android application

In the Phimpme Android application, users can perform various operations on images such as editing an image, sharing an image, moving the image to another folder, printing a pdf version of the image and many more. However, another important functionality that has been implemented is the option to compress an image. Two modes of compress operation have been implemented namely compress by size and compress by dimensions. So in this blog post, I will be discussing how we achieved the functionality to compress any image by size.

Step 1

First, we need to add an option in the bottom bar menu(in the SingleMediaActivity) to compress the image being viewed. The option to compress an image has been added by implementing the following lines of code in the  menu_bottom_view_pager.xml file.

<item
      android:id=“@+id/action_compress”
      android:orderInCategory=“2”
      app:showAsAction=“always”
      android:icon=“@drawable/compressicn”
      android:title=“Compress”/>

Step 2

Now on selecting the compress option, the user would be prompted to choose the compress mode i.e compress by size or compress by dimension. Once the user has opted for the size mode a dialog with a seekbar to set the compress percentage is to be displayed. Code snippets used to implement the dialog along with seekbar is displayed below.

<RelativeLayout
  android:layout_width=“wrap_content”
  android:layout_height=“wrap_content”
  android:layout_marginTop=“8dp”>

  <SeekBar
      android:id=“@+id/seekBar”
      android:layout_width=“match_parent”
      android:layout_height=“wrap_content”
      android:layout_weight=“0.65”
      android:max=“90”
      android:progressBackgroundTint=“@color/colorPrimary”
      android:thumb=“@drawable/ic_location_on_black_24dp” />

  <TextView
      android:id=“@+id/textview2”
      android:layout_width=“wrap_content”
      android:layout_height=“wrap_content”
      android:layout_alignParentEnd=“true”
      android:layout_below=“@+id/seekBar”
      android:layout_marginBottom=“5dp”
      android:layout_marginEnd=“16dp”
      android:text=“95%”
      android:textAppearance=“@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Body1”
      android:textSize=“16sp” />
</RelativeLayout>

A screenshot displaying the dialog to set the compress percentage is provided below

Step 3

Here to obtain the compress functionality we have used an open-sourced custom image compression library Compressor. After the user has set the compress percentage, the Compressor class of the library is instantiated by passing-in the context as the parameter and some of its functions are invoked simultaneously. The functions invoked are setQuality(), setCompressFormat(), setDestinationDirectoryPath(), compressToFile().

setQuality(int) – to set the percentage compressed.

setCompressFormat(Bitmap.CompressFormat) – to determine the format of the output compressed image.

setDestinationDirectoryPath(File) – to specify the path to which the compressed image is to be saved.

compressToFile(File) – to perform the compress operation, passing-in the file object of the corresponding image to be compressed.

The compressToFile() function performs the final compress operation and saves the compressed image to the specified path.

Code snippets to implement the above-mentioned operations are given below

private void compressSize() {

  LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
  View dialogLayout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.dialog_compresssize, null);
  TextView title = (TextView) dialogLayout.findViewById(R.id.compress_title);
  title.setBackgroundColor(getPrimaryColor());
  SeekBar percentsize = (SeekBar) dialogLayout.findViewById(R.id.seekBar);
  percentsize.getThumb().setColorFilter(getAccentColor(), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
  percentsize.setProgress(0);
  final TextView percent=(TextView)dialogLayout.findViewById(R.id.textview2);
  percentsize.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(new SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener() {
      @Override
      public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress, boolean fromUser) {
          //options of compress by size from 5% to 9;
          int progress1=95-progress;
          progress1=progress1-progress1%5;
          percent.setText(progress1+“%”);
          percentagecompress=progress1;}

      @Override
      public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
          //do nothing
      }

      @Override
      public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
          //do nothing
      }
  });}
new Compressor(getApplicationContext())
.setQuality(percentagecompress)
.setCompressFormat(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG)
.setDestinationDirectoryPath(FileUtilsCompress.createFolders().getPath())
.compressToFile(new File(saveFilePath));

This is how we have implemented the functionality to compress an image by size in the Phimpme Android application. To get the full source code, please refer to the Phimpme Android Github repository.

Resources

  1. Android Developer documentation –https://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/File
  2. Compressor Library – https://github.com/zetbaitsu/Compressor
  3. Seekbar Tutorial – https://abhiandroid.com/ui/seekbar

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