Let’s Develop an Android App to Upload Files and Images

In this tutorial, we are going to implement a beautiful Android UI to upload images.

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Previously, we created a backend API to upload images using Java and Spring, which you can find here. Today, we will implement the android UI for the backend.

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Development of Android Application

In this tutorial, we are going to develop an Android App using the REST API to link the App with the back-end database. It will demonstrate the basic REST API requests using the Android UI.

The Need

In our series to build an E-Commerce App, we have created ways in our application to view, add, and update our products by communicating with our REST API service. We have been adding the image preview and thumbnails for products and categories by giving an input hyperlink for the image.

The users and creators must have the added functionality to upload images directly by accessing the phone storage. In this tutorial, we are going to explore the aspects of file upload.