I'm trying to convert a network image into a file and the first part of that is to convert it into a Uint8List. Here is how I'm doing this with 1 of my asset images...
final ByteData bytes = await rootBundle.load('assests/logo');
final Uint8List list = bytes.buffer.asUint8List();
final tempDir = await getTemporaryDirectory();
final file = await new File('${tempDir.path}/image.jpg').create();
file.writeAsBytesSync(list);
How can I do this with Image.network(imageUrl.com/image)
void initState() {
super.initState();
var sunImage = new NetworkImage(
"https://resources.ninghao.org/images/childhood-in-a-picture.jpg");
sunImage.obtainKey(new ImageConfiguration()).then((val) {
var load = sunImage.load(val);
load.addListener((listener, err) async {
setState(() => image = listener);
});
});
}
See also https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/23761#issuecomment-434606683
Then you can use image.toByteData().buffer.asUInt8List()
See also https://docs.flutter.io/flutter/dart-ui/Image/toByteData.html
The simplest way seeems to get the http response using the image url and response.bodyBytes
would contain the data in Uint8List
.
http.Response response = await http.get(
'https://flutter.io/images/flutter-mark-square-100.png',
);
response.bodyBytes //Uint8List
Now you can do things like converting to base64 encoded string base64.encode(response.bodyBytes);
The answers here are relevant and help explain how dart and flutter image compression/conversion works. If you would like a shortcut, there is this package https://pub.dev/packages/network_image_to_byte that makes it really easy.