Android - Reduce image file size

Most of the answers i found were just pieces that i had to put together to get a working code, which is posted below

 public void compressBitmap(File file, int sampleSize, int quality) {
        try {
           BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
            options.inSampleSize = sampleSize;
            FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);

            Bitmap selectedBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(inputStream, null, options);
            inputStream.close();

            FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream("location to save");
            selectedBitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, quality, outputStream);
            outputStream.close();
            long lengthInKb = photo.length() / 1024; //in kb
            if (lengthInKb > SIZE_LIMIT) {
               compressBitmap(file, (sampleSize*2), (quality/4));
            }

            selectedBitmap.recycle();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

2 parameters sampleSize and quality plays an important role

sampleSize is used to subsample the original image and return a smaller image, ie
SampleSize == 4 returns an image that is 1/4 the width/height of the original.

quality is used to hint the compressor, input range is between 0-100. 0 meaning compress for small size, 100 meaning compress for max quality

Using Bitmap.compress() you just specify compression algorithm and by the way compression operation takes rather big amount of time. If you need to play with sizes for reducing memory allocation for your image, you exactly need to use scaling of your image using Bitmap.Options, computing bitmap bounds at first and then decoding it to your specified size.

The best sample that I found on StackOverflow is this one.