Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Apache License import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.IOException; import android.util.Base64; public class Main { /** * File to Base64 * @param filePath * @return * @throws FileNotFoundException * @throws IOException */ public static String getBase64StringFromFile(String filePath) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException { byte[] buffer = null; File file = new File(filePath); FileInputStream fis = null; ByteArrayOutputStream bos = null; byte[] b = new byte[1000]; try { fis = new FileInputStream(file); bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(1000); int n; while ((n = fis.read(b)) != -1) { bos.write(b, 0, n); } fis.close(); bos.close(); buffer = bos.toByteArray(); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { throw e; } catch (IOException e) { throw e; } finally { if (bos != null) { try { bos.close(); } catch (IOException e1) { e1.printStackTrace(); } } if (fis != null) { try { fis.close(); } catch (IOException e1) { e1.printStackTrace(); } } } return Base64.encodeToString(buffer, Base64.DEFAULT); } }