Android Upload Video to Server using PHP

November 23, 2015 by Belal Khan 74 Comments

Many peoples requested me to write a tutorial to upload video to server. So in this android upload video to server tutorial we will learn how we can upload video from android gallery to our web server.

For this tutorial I will be using Hostinger’s fee web hosting server.

Some peoples also asked me about a tutorial to upload files to my website. So, you can also use this for File Upload Server Application with a little modification.

So the first thing I need to do for this android upload video to server project, is to create a php script that will handle the multipart request sent from our android device.

Creating Server Side Scripts

Go to your hosting (You can also use wamp/xampp) and create a directory. (I created VideoUpload).
Now inside the directory create one more directory named uploads.
And create a new file upload.php, and write the following php code.

<?php

	if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=='POST'){
		$file_name = $_FILES['myFile']['name'];
		$file_size = $_FILES['myFile']['size'];
		$file_type = $_FILES['myFile']['type'];
		$temp_name = $_FILES['myFile']['tmp_name'];
				
		$location = "uploads/";
			
		move_uploaded_file($temp_name, $location.$file_name);
		echo "http://www.simplifiedcoding.16mb.com/VideoUpload/uploads/".$file_name;
	}else{
		echo "Error";
	}

<?php

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=='POST'){

$file_name = $_FILES['myFile']['name'];

$file_size = $_FILES['myFile']['size'];

$file_type = $_FILES['myFile']['type'];

$temp_name = $_FILES['myFile']['tmp_name'];

$location = "uploads/";

move_uploaded_file($temp_name, $location.$file_name);

echo "http://www.simplifiedcoding.16mb.com/VideoUpload/uploads/".$file_name;

}else{

echo "Error";

}

Note down the URL for upload.php and thats all for the server side.

Android Upload Video To Server Project

Open android studio and create a new project. I created VideoUpload.
Now come to activity_main.xml and write the following xml code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="net.simplifiedcoding.videoupload.MainActivity">

    <Button
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Choose File"
        android:id="@+id/buttonChoose" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Upload"
        android:id="@+id/buttonUpload" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textViewResponse"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

android:orientation="vertical"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

tools:context="net.simplifiedcoding.videoupload.MainActivity">

<Button

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:text="Choose File"

android:id="@+id/buttonChoose" />

<TextView

android:id="@+id/textView"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

<Button

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:text="Upload"

android:id="@+id/buttonUpload" />

<TextView

android:id="@+id/textViewResponse"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

The above code will produce the following layout.

android upload video to server

Now we will create a new class to handle the upload.
Create a new class named Upload.java and write the following code.

package net.simplifiedcoding.videoupload;

import android.util.Log;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

/**
 * Created by Belal on 11/22/2015.
 */
public class Upload {
    
    public static final String UPLOAD_URL= "http://simplifiedcoding.16mb.com/VideoUpload/upload.php";
    
    private int serverResponseCode;
    
    public String uploadVideo(String file) {

        String fileName = file;
        HttpURLConnection conn = null;
        DataOutputStream dos = null;
        String lineEnd = "\r\n";
        String twoHyphens = "--";
        String boundary = "*****";
        int bytesRead, bytesAvailable, bufferSize;
        byte[] buffer;
        int maxBufferSize = 1 * 1024 * 1024;

        File sourceFile = new File(file);
        if (!sourceFile.isFile()) {
            Log.e("Huzza", "Source File Does not exist");
            return null;
        }

        try {
            FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(sourceFile);
            URL url = new URL(UPLOAD_URL);
            conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            conn.setDoInput(true);
            conn.setDoOutput(true);
            conn.setUseCaches(false);
            conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
            conn.setRequestProperty("Connection", "Keep-Alive");
            conn.setRequestProperty("ENCTYPE", "multipart/form-data");
            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data;boundary=" + boundary);
            conn.setRequestProperty("myFile", fileName);
            dos = new DataOutputStream(conn.getOutputStream());

            dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd);
            dos.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"myFile\";filename=\"" + fileName + "\"" + lineEnd);
            dos.writeBytes(lineEnd);

            bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();
            Log.i("Huzza", "Initial .available : " + bytesAvailable);

            bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize);
            buffer = new byte[bufferSize];

            bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);

            while (bytesRead > 0) {
                dos.write(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
                bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();
                bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize);
                bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
            }

            dos.writeBytes(lineEnd);
            dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + twoHyphens + lineEnd);

            serverResponseCode = conn.getResponseCode();

            fileInputStream.close();
            dos.flush();
            dos.close();
        } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        if (serverResponseCode == 200) {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            try {
                BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn
                        .getInputStream()));
                String line;
                while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
                    sb.append(line);
                }
                rd.close();
            } catch (IOException ioex) {
            }
            return sb.toString();
        }else {
            return "Could not upload";
        }
    }
}

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package net.simplifiedcoding.videoupload;

import android.util.Log;

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.DataOutputStream;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import java.net.URL;

/**

* Created by Belal on 11/22/2015.

public class Upload {

public static final String UPLOAD_URL= "http://simplifiedcoding.16mb.com/VideoUpload/upload.php";

private int serverResponseCode;

public String uploadVideo(String file) {

String fileName = file;

HttpURLConnection conn = null;

DataOutputStream dos = null;

String lineEnd = "\r\n";

String twoHyphens = "--";

String boundary = "*****";

int bytesRead, bytesAvailable, bufferSize;

byte[] buffer;

int maxBufferSize = 1 * 1024 * 1024;

File sourceFile = new File(file);

if (!sourceFile.isFile()) {

Log.e("Huzza", "Source File Does not exist");

return null;

}

try {

FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(sourceFile);

URL url = new URL(UPLOAD_URL);

conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

conn.setDoInput(true);

conn.setDoOutput(true);

conn.setUseCaches(false);

conn.setRequestMethod("POST");

conn.setRequestProperty("Connection", "Keep-Alive");

conn.setRequestProperty("ENCTYPE", "multipart/form-data");

conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data;boundary=" + boundary);

conn.setRequestProperty("myFile", fileName);

dos = new DataOutputStream(conn.getOutputStream());

dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd);

dos.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"myFile\";filename=\"" + fileName + "\"" + lineEnd);

dos.writeBytes(lineEnd);

bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();

Log.i("Huzza", "Initial .available : " + bytesAvailable);

bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize);

buffer = new byte[bufferSize];

bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);

while (bytesRead > 0) {

dos.write(buffer, 0, bufferSize);

bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();

bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize);

bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);

}

dos.writeBytes(lineEnd);

dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + twoHyphens + lineEnd);

serverResponseCode = conn.getResponseCode();

fileInputStream.close();

dos.flush();

dos.close();

} catch (MalformedURLException ex) {

ex.printStackTrace();

} catch (Exception e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

if (serverResponseCode == 200) {

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

try {

BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn

.getInputStream()));

String line;

while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {

sb.append(line);

}

rd.close();

} catch (IOException ioex) {

}

return sb.toString();

}else {

return "Could not upload";

}

The above code will simply send a multipart request to the URL specified. And will return the response from the server as a string.
Now come to MainActivity.java and write the following code.

package net.simplifiedcoding.videoupload;

import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.provider.MediaStore;
import android.support.v4.content.CursorLoader;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.Html;
import android.text.method.LinkMovementMethod;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
import android.widget.VideoView;

import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.io.File;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements View.OnClickListener {

    private Button buttonChoose;
    private Button buttonUpload;
    private TextView textView;
    private TextView textViewResponse;

    private static final int SELECT_VIDEO = 3;

    private String selectedPath;

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

        buttonChoose = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonChoose);
        buttonUpload = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonUpload);

        textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);
        textViewResponse = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textViewResponse);

        buttonChoose.setOnClickListener(this);
        buttonUpload.setOnClickListener(this);
    }

    private void chooseVideo() {
        Intent intent = new Intent();
        intent.setType("video/*");
        intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
        startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Select a Video "), SELECT_VIDEO);
    }

    @Override
    public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
            if (requestCode == SELECT_VIDEO) {
                System.out.println("SELECT_VIDEO");
                Uri selectedImageUri = data.getData();
                selectedPath = getPath(selectedImageUri);
                textView.setText(selectedPath);
            }
        }
    }

    public String getPath(Uri uri) {
        Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null);
        cursor.moveToFirst();
        String document_id = cursor.getString(0);
        document_id = document_id.substring(document_id.lastIndexOf(":") + 1);
        cursor.close();

        cursor = getContentResolver().query(
                android.provider.MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
                null, MediaStore.Images.Media._ID + " = ? ", new String[]{document_id}, null);
        cursor.moveToFirst();
        String path = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA));
        cursor.close();

        return path;
    }

    private void uploadVideo() {
        class UploadVideo extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, String> {

            ProgressDialog uploading;

            @Override
            protected void onPreExecute() {
                super.onPreExecute();
                uploading = ProgressDialog.show(MainActivity.this, "Uploading File", "Please wait...", false, false);
            }

            @Override
            protected void onPostExecute(String s) {
                super.onPostExecute(s);
                uploading.dismiss();
                textViewResponse.setText(Html.fromHtml("<b>Uploaded at <a href='" + s + "'>" + s + "</a></b>"));
                textViewResponse.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
            }

            @Override
            protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
                Upload u = new Upload();
                String msg = u.uploadVideo(selectedPath);
                return msg;
            }
        }
        UploadVideo uv = new UploadVideo();
        uv.execute();
    }


    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        if (v == buttonChoose) {
            chooseVideo();
        }
        if (v == buttonUpload) {
            uploadVideo();
        }
    }
}

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package net.simplifiedcoding.videoupload;

import android.app.ProgressDialog;

import android.content.Context;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.database.Cursor;

import android.net.Uri;

import android.os.AsyncTask;

import android.provider.MediaStore;

import android.support.v4.content.CursorLoader;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.text.Html;

import android.text.method.LinkMovementMethod;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.ProgressBar;

import android.widget.TextView;

import android.widget.Toast;

import android.widget.VideoView;

import org.json.JSONException;

import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.io.File;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements View.OnClickListener {

private Button buttonChoose;

private Button buttonUpload;

private TextView textView;

private TextView textViewResponse;

private static final int SELECT_VIDEO = 3;

private String selectedPath;

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

buttonChoose = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonChoose);

buttonUpload = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonUpload);

textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);

textViewResponse = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textViewResponse);

buttonChoose.setOnClickListener(this);

buttonUpload.setOnClickListener(this);

}

private void chooseVideo() {

Intent intent = new Intent();

intent.setType("video/*");

intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);

startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Select a Video "), SELECT_VIDEO);

}

@Override

public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {

if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {

if (requestCode == SELECT_VIDEO) {

System.out.println("SELECT_VIDEO");

Uri selectedImageUri = data.getData();

selectedPath = getPath(selectedImageUri);

textView.setText(selectedPath);

}

public String getPath(Uri uri) {

Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null);

cursor.moveToFirst();

String document_id = cursor.getString(0);

document_id = document_id.substring(document_id.lastIndexOf(":") + 1);

cursor.close();

cursor = getContentResolver().query(

android.provider.MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,

null, MediaStore.Images.Media._ID + " = ? ", new String[]{document_id}, null);

cursor.moveToFirst();

String path = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA));

cursor.close();

return path;

}

private void uploadVideo() {

class UploadVideo extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, String> {

ProgressDialog uploading;

@Override

protected void onPreExecute() {

super.onPreExecute();

uploading = ProgressDialog.show(MainActivity.this, "Uploading File", "Please wait...", false, false);

}

@Override

protected void onPostExecute(String s) {

super.onPostExecute(s);

uploading.dismiss();

textViewResponse.setText(Html.fromHtml("<b>Uploaded at <a href='" + s + "'>" + s + "</a></b>"));

textViewResponse.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

}

@Override

protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {

Upload u = new Upload();

String msg = u.uploadVideo(selectedPath);

return msg;

}

UploadVideo uv = new UploadVideo();

uv.execute();

}

@Override

public void onClick(View v) {

if (v == buttonChoose) {

chooseVideo();

}

if (v == buttonUpload) {

uploadVideo();

}

Now add READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and INTERNET permission to your manifest file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="net.simplifiedcoding.videoupload">

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

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

package="net.simplifiedcoding.videoupload">

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

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

<application

android:allowBackup="true"

android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"

android:label="@string/app_name"

android:supportsRtl="true"

android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

<intent-filter>

</intent-filter>

</activity>

</application>

</manifest>

Now run your application.

android upload video to server

And yes it is working absolutely fine. You can get my source code from the GitHub repository. Just go to the link given below.

Get Android Upload Video to Server using PHP Source from GitHub

Some more Android Application Development Tutorial to Check

So thats all for this android upload video to server tutorial friends. I haven’t explained the code because we already have seen many tutorials like this. But still if you are having any query regarding this android upload video to server tutorial leave your comments. Thank You 🙂

About Belal Khan

I am Belal Khan, I am currently pursuing my MCA. In this blog I write tutorials and articles related to coding, app development, android etc.

Comments

Ashwini says

November 24, 2015 at 7:44 am

Hii Belal,

Thanks for this tutorial it helps me alot. it’s working absolutely fine. You are great!!

Reply
Ashwini says

November 24, 2015 at 8:15 am

Hii Belal,

I want to save video url in database with some parameter like name and address. here is the code with some change .Those changes i have made in “android-upload-video-to-server-using-php ”

public static final String KEY_TEXT = “pondid”;
public static final String KEY_TEXT1 = “name”;
public static final String UPLOAD_URL = “http://192.168.0.113/userregistration/uploads.php”;

//onCreate()
e_pondid=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.e_pondid);
e_name=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.e_name);

//uploadVideo()
final String pondid = e_pondid.getText().toString().trim();
final String name = e_name.getText().toString().trim();

//doInBackground()
RequestHandler rh = new RequestHandler();
HashMap param = new HashMap();
param.put(KEY_TEXT,pondid);
param.put(KEY_TEXT1,name);

String result = rh.sendPostRequest(UPLOAD_URL, param);
return result;

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- Belal Khan says
  
  November 24, 2015 at 1:41 pm
  
  Is it working or not? You just need to store the url of the video to your mysql table. Try clubbing the other tutorial with this one..
  
  Reply
- santhosh says
  
  March 14, 2016 at 4:47 am
  
  Hii Ashwini,
  I also have same doubt, I want store Video URL with some attributes like name, description.
  How to send the name and address parameters from java coding.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Reply
vivek says

November 24, 2015 at 9:45 am

i am getting a error that failed to open stream

Reply
- Belal Khan says
  
  November 24, 2015 at 10:57 am
  
  In which line you are getting the error? Post a screenshot if you can
  
  Reply
  - vivek says
    
    November 24, 2015 at 11:58 am
    
    in line no 9 of php script.
    i have mailed u screen shot on ur mail id [email protected]
    
    Reply
    - Belal Khan says
      
      November 24, 2015 at 12:27 pm
      
      as i am seeing in the screenshot you have created the PHP file inside the uploads folder
      
      just move the script outside the uploads folder and try again
      
      you need to change the url in android studio after moving the script
      
      Reply
      - vivek says
        
        November 24, 2015 at 1:24 pm
        
        Hey Bro!
        It works well after moving php script…….
        Thanks………
Vikrant says

November 25, 2015 at 5:20 am

Great Tutorial sir.

it show file uploaded successfully but i am not getting any file over the server.
tried changing permissions, but still not able to understand whats wrong in that.

Reply
- Belal Khan says
  
  November 25, 2015 at 1:27 pm
  
  Have you tried downloading my code?
  
  Reply
Ashwini says

November 25, 2015 at 6:00 am

Hii Belal,

It’s working and video url is getting save into database but not the id and name.

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PRATHAP says

November 26, 2015 at 1:29 am

hey bro..!! i have one doubt…I have made one simple app…Which connects to server…I am accessing it through my ip…aftr some time am running that app it is not working…then i have checked my ip….it has to something else…my system ip meant…
plz do help me…
whats is happening here…that s static one…hw tat suppose changed… make it clear

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- Belal Khan says
  
  November 26, 2015 at 1:52 pm
  
  I seen this situation once but never bothered about thinking why it happened. My wamp server’s ip was changing in every restart.. but now it is static and I haven’t done anything…
  You have to change the ip which is working in the url
  
  Reply
saikumar says

December 3, 2015 at 5:40 am

Bro, Can u please send me the Screen shot of the table created in mysql database And update the full code.. thanking you!!!

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- Belal Khan says
  
  December 3, 2015 at 7:22 am
  
  Where we have used database here? It is only sending file to server no database required here.. you can add database if you want
  
  Reply
Bashooo9 says

December 4, 2015 at 9:44 pm

Dear Bilal..I just wanted to thank you for your effort you are putting to teach people stuff you worked hard to learn..
with the help of your blog i have started my own android developer job:), and it means alot since i’ll be able to bring my family from war .
thanks alot, and you will see me commenting and supporting alot:)
BTW…the best thing in your blog is that you actually reply and listen to the readers … thanks alot dude you are the best 🙂

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- Belal Khan says
  
  December 5, 2015 at 5:35 am
  
  Thanks buddy keep visiting (y)
  
  Reply
Marshall Lee says

December 10, 2015 at 3:47 pm

Hello Belal

First of all, thank you for your post. I am trying to make an application which uploads a video to the server based on your code. When I try to upload a video, I get a string response successfully. But the thing is I actually do not manage to upload the file itself. I’m trying to find out what the problem is with my code, but there is a limit. So I need your help. If you don’t mind, could you visit my GitHub account and check it out?

The Android application link is https://github.com/marshallslee/VideoStreaming
The classes that are involved in uploading the videos are VideoManager.java (the class which uploads the video, link: https://github.com/marshallslee/VideoStreaming/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/marshall/videostreaming/network/VideoManager.java) and UploadAVideoActivity.java (the UI class, link: https://github.com/marshallslee/VideoStreaming/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/marshall/videostreaming/ui/UploadVideoActivity.java).

and the php-side link is https://github.com/marshallslee/VideoStreamingBackend/tree/master/VideoStreaming.

If you have some time to check it out and find out what the problem is, that will be very much helpful for me. Thank you in advance.

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- Belal Khan says
  
  December 11, 2015 at 10:01 am
  
  I will get back to you ASAP.. As I am having my end semester exams.. I am not able to go through your code.. So till then please keep trying (y)
  
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Besher Aletouni says

December 16, 2015 at 10:45 pm

Hello Belalo thanks alot for your wonderful tutorial again 🙂
Every thing you post works perfectly 🙂
Now, I have a small question,I was trying to send a String from android with the video.
In your past tutorial :
https://www.simplifiedcoding.net/android-upload-image-from-gallery-with-text/

you managed to send the text as a hashmap:

OutputStream os = conn.getOutputStream();
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(
new OutputStreamWriter(os, “UTF-8”));
writer.write(getPostDataString(postDataParams));

writer.flush();
writer.close();

I tried to implement this in this code (with the getPostDataString sure) but i failed , so i had to use this other way,

dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd);
dos.writeBytes(“Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\”name\”” + lineEnd);
dos.writeBytes(lineEnd);
dos.writeBytes(Config.NAME); // NAMEis String variable
dos.writeBytes(lineEnd);

which is working good but i had to re do this for every string i am gonna send, I was wondering if you can tell me how to implement your old code into this one,,, (not the fully code and sure not the main activity code My problem is only with the sendpostrequest method 🙂
And i know you have exams and no hurry my friend take your time and god bless you.

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- Besher Aletouni says
  
  January 9, 2016 at 7:03 pm
  
  Still waiting for your help master 😀
  
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  - Same says
    
    February 13, 2016 at 10:44 pm
    
    Still 😀
    
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bhavin says

January 1, 2016 at 7:09 am

Bhai pahele to thank sooo much your tutorials are worth for the students like us u make it soo easy and no need to download any external library or any other stuff thnx through your tutorials I learned to post text,images on wamp and receive back thnx to u for that there is no other easy way to this except ua tutorials .. now I here with 1 problem of storing videos on server every thing is working fine just when the video is uploaded from app the response from php is ” undefined myFile” how to resolve this

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bhavin says

January 1, 2016 at 10:32 am

php returned myFile undefined index in text view how should I resolve it

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Developer says

January 15, 2016 at 8:30 am

Hi man, Thank you for your posts. I was wondering, how would you use this very code to add more parameters to the data sent from upload.java to php script. I’m basically trying to upload a video with a comment at the same time.

In one of the posts where you upload to the server you did something like this;

@Override
protected String doInBackground(Void… params) {
RequestHandler rh = new RequestHandler(); already created up. But if it leads to errors use it
HashMap param = new HashMap();
param.put(Config.KEY_USR_ID, userId);
param.put(Config.KEY_CMT, cmt);
String result = rh.sendPostRequest(Config.URL, param);
return result;
}

I can’t get this to work in this particular example.

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Steve says

January 28, 2016 at 12:48 am

Hey man.Can you please explain me in which directory should I create php file

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narayana reddy says

February 8, 2016 at 10:41 am

hi belal i want to fetch video plzzz bro help me out

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Thili Bu says

February 9, 2016 at 3:20 pm

Thank you for the well explained tutorials. Really nice work. This code also works for me. But I want to add the video to database. I tried to do this. Can you explain simply the way to do this? I made a android project by following your ‘upload image to server’ with some changes. I created php file too.But getting errors.i think the error comes because of php file. Please help me on this.

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Maddy says

February 9, 2016 at 5:25 pm

Hi Belal,

Thanks for your great Tutorial. I am beginner to android and for client – server Communication. My Doubt is, Can I use My Xampp Localhost IP to connect with my android, for fetching data to server and getting responses. If YES please send me the procedure. with one small example to email id([email protected])…

Thanks in Advance for your help…

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Lokesh Kumar says

March 9, 2016 at 12:51 pm

Hi Belal,
I am use your code for upload the mp4 file on server, it uploaded successfully but video file is not playing, so what can do for this problem.
Thanks

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Ivan says

March 16, 2016 at 11:29 am

Hi, I’m trying to add a EditText to put a name, and add not get to send it by post with the video.
Someone can help me ?, thanks

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Kirk says

March 19, 2016 at 4:31 pm

This is real close to what I am wanting to do, however, I need a little more functionality.
Is there a way, I can make it where users have to enter their User Name and Password for the server in to the app, have it verify them on the server, then have a button to live record the video, then upload to the server, but put it in their personal video folder. I will also need to add the video to the MySql Database.

Doable?

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Thirumalaivasan says

March 21, 2016 at 10:31 am

hi Belal thi is nice tutorial to learn android , the coding was easy to learn with clear example , thank u so much belal

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hamed says

April 18, 2016 at 9:35 pm

hi
thanks for tutorial

im worten code, uploaded file in programm , but not uploaded in my server,

please help me

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jaspal says

April 26, 2016 at 6:37 am

Hi belal code is working at one device using Linux; U; Android 4.2.2; Build/JDQ39
but at another device Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 5.1; Build/LMY47D)
it does not work.

I am sure problem is in php file.
but i am able to see some echo message come from php file to app

Kindly solve the issue thnx

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Nadim Sheik says

May 1, 2016 at 12:30 pm

Working fine, but it would be better if video is taken through camera….pls send a code to take video through device and upload it to server.

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Diego Canete says

May 3, 2016 at 4:17 pm

What means int maxBufferSize = 1 * 1024 * 1024?? It this work for large files?

How can I define as 30 seconds of video ? Or for example 10MB of video?

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Özgür says

May 18, 2016 at 5:28 pm

Hi,

Awesome work. How can we add a text box and put both text box value and the video URL to the mysql database?

Thank you.

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Harsh says

June 1, 2016 at 10:21 am

The video is not getting uploaded sir!!! I have made the demo project with your github code..

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Harsh says

June 1, 2016 at 10:59 am

video not getting upload from lolipop versions onwards…

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Soheil says

June 7, 2016 at 2:27 pm

Hi
Tnx for your article.
I try upload multi file and most of them getting this error in android :
“Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 65548 byte allocation with 38840 free bytes and 37KB until OOM”

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GeekyBoy says

June 12, 2016 at 6:53 pm

Hey
Thanks a million
And it wont support the uploading of the video of greater than 1 mb
What to do?

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sam says

July 19, 2016 at 1:05 pm

HOW TO UPLOAD VIDEO AND STRING (LIKE Username=”john”) at same request?

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sam says

July 19, 2016 at 1:09 pm

How to Upload Video and String togather like(username=”John”)??

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Anandhu says

July 20, 2016 at 11:13 am

i cant download the project. can you mail it and its not working in version above lollipop

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renuka says

July 29, 2016 at 11:50 am

plz send tutorial Android Upload audio to Server using PHP

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saeed says

August 8, 2016 at 4:21 pm

will u please upload tutorial uploading video using volley or retrofit

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- Belal Khan says
  
  August 8, 2016 at 4:23 pm
  
  You cannot use volley for file upload
  
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Nandu says

August 30, 2016 at 2:28 pm

Hi BELAL KHAN
I need a help how to show video instead of video file path in your project before uploading to server.

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pooja says

September 12, 2016 at 6:29 am

can you please upload the tutorial for upload the audio only on local host…………….
as soon as possible

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- ashwini says
  
  October 14, 2016 at 6:50 am
  
  exactly i just want 2 upload my audio file so please help me??????
  
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  - shashikant says
    
    August 28, 2017 at 6:36 am
    
    yes
    
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jumanto says

September 15, 2016 at 9:13 am

after click button upload , i want to show in listview, but i don’t how to add thumbnail video to imageview in listview? ,can you help me ?

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ashwini says

October 14, 2016 at 6:49 am

what to do if i want to upload my audio ?????? is there a same process for audio upload????

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Hendrik Hausen says

December 4, 2016 at 3:05 pm

Hi,
i want to change the filename of the uploaded file to a custom one (read out from an edit text). I tried to pass a string with POST to the php script, but could not get it working yet.
Can u help me and show me how and at which place i have to add the code in java? I used URLEncoder.encode with UTF-8, but again, could not get it working yet.
Greetings and thanks,
Hendrik

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Shashank Kumar says

December 22, 2016 at 1:36 pm

Bilal Please tell me that upload url is working or not?

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Abhijeet says

December 29, 2016 at 12:14 pm

HI Bilal,
Thanks a lot for the tutorial.
Do you have a tutorial for downloading the video file ?0

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yıldıray says

February 11, 2017 at 12:00 pm

hi belal thanks for the tutorial
when ı uploading the video show error mesaje “can not upload” help me

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Siddharth says

February 16, 2017 at 7:02 pm

Hey great work buddy! Can you please tell me the modifications that need to done in this code if i want to upload my video to my online server?

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Amigo says

February 20, 2017 at 9:21 pm

Hi belal,
Very robust work.
It worked without single warning 🙂

Keep it up

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Anonymous says

April 16, 2017 at 11:21 pm

Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException:
Permission Denial: reading com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider uri content://media/external/video/media from pid=2582, uid=10081 requires android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, or grantUriPermission()

In the AndroidManifest :

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- Anonymous says
  
  April 16, 2017 at 11:24 pm
  
  I just download the projet, each time a click on a video it crash.
  
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Doria says

April 23, 2017 at 7:56 am

I do not know why always “could not upload” when using the app in my android phone. However, the video can be uploaded successfully in AVD.

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Abe Ansah says

April 24, 2017 at 8:21 pm

Please can this be done on a remote server without android studio?

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aditya says

April 25, 2017 at 1:51 pm

Bro can u tell where use the key and if u dont use key then please how can i did this with key because i want other field like string and image to send simultaneously

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andy says

April 26, 2017 at 11:22 am

Hi,
i tried your code…………. it runs properly without any error, but there is bug. when i m selecting video file. i debug the code , it stopped on ……
private String getPath(Uri uri) { Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null);
cursor.moveToFirst();
how can i fix it…

thanx.

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Emin says

May 27, 2017 at 11:46 pm

These codes do not work on version 5 of android.

selectedPath = getPath(selectedImageUri);
and
cursor.moveToFirst();

It says there are some mistakes in the parts.

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Gaurav Yadav says

June 13, 2017 at 12:22 pm

Heyy Bilal,

I have tried your code it only stores the name of file on the server not the complete file. Is it from program or there is any mistake?

Thanks in advance

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Himanshu verma says

December 19, 2017 at 7:50 am

Hi Bilal, i am getting message, uploaed at “MY_URL”, i found nothing in my folder on the server, could you please still help out. Thanks a lot.

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Nadeem says

February 19, 2018 at 3:17 am

I want to record video and direclly store on server folder.please can you help me??

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amar says

June 30, 2018 at 3:38 pm

Hi Belal,

I have downloaded your code and using xampp server and running on my local machine. After clicking on upload button get below error. could you please help me fix it. thanks.

failed to connect to localhost/127.0.0.1 (port 80): connect failed: ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)

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Ankur Jain says

September 30, 2018 at 5:53 am

Hi Bilal,

you are always guiding with wonderful tutorials and i used this and it is working fine. I still have few more queries, it would be great if you can help.

1. In your PHP location is uploads/, i want to keep it dynamic and send as one parameter along with video upload request. Please guide how to do it?
2. Your code worked fine on my Hostgator server but when i tried on Godaddy, no file is being uploaded. Can you guide possible fix required for Godaddy.

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Emre says

November 26, 2018 at 5:12 pm

Hi, if i uplaod from camera folder it works but when i upload from whatsapp folder or instagram folder it gave me error.

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