Example Depot

byte[] input = "some some bytes to compress".getBytes(); // Create the compressor with highest level of compression Deflater compressor = new Deflater(); compressor.setLevel(Deflater.BEST_COMPRESSION); // Give the compressor the data to compress compressor.setInput(input); compressor.finish(); // Create an expandable byte array to hold the compressed data. // You cannot use an array that's the same size as the orginal because // there is no guarantee that the compressed data will be smaller than // the uncompressed data. ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(input.length); // Compress the data byte[] buf = new byte[1024]; while (!compressor.finished()) { int count = compressor.deflate(buf); bos.write(buf, 0, count); } try { bos.close(); } catch (IOException e) { } // Get the compressed data byte[] compressedData = bos.toByteArray();