I want to send photo selected by user in my app to Firebase Storage. I have a simple class with property _imageFile
which is set like this:
File _imageFile;
_getImage() async {
var fileName = await ImagePicker.pickImage();
setState(() {
_imageFile = fileName;
});
}
after that I send photo like with this code:
final String rand1 = "${new Random().nextInt(10000)}";
final String rand2 = "${new Random().nextInt(10000)}";
final String rand3 = "${new Random().nextInt(10000)}";
final StorageReference ref = FirebaseStorage.instance.ref().child('${rand1}_${rand2}_${rand3}.jpg');
final StorageUploadTask uploadTask = ref.put(_imageFile);
final Uri downloadUrl = (await uploadTask.future).downloadUrl;
print(downloadUrl);
The problem is that the photos are often very large. Is there any method in Flutter/Dart to compress and resize photo before upload? I am ok with loss of quality.
The image_picker plugin is currently very simple. It would be straightforward to add an option for specifying the desired size/quality of the picked image. If you do this, please send us a pull request!
I ran into this and was able to accomplish compression / resizing with the Dart image package along with path provider. You can look at dart image api and examples for other ways and more help.
Here's what I did:
import 'package:image/image.dart' as Im;
import 'package:path_provider/path_provider.dart';
import 'dart:math' as Math;
void compressImage() async {
File imageFile = await ImagePicker.pickImage();
final tempDir = await getTemporaryDirectory();
final path = tempDir.path;
int rand = new Math.Random().nextInt(10000);
Im.Image image = Im.decodeImage(imageFile.readAsBytesSync());
Im.Image smallerImage = Im.copyResize(image, 500); // choose the size here, it will maintain aspect ratio
var compressedImage = new File('$path/img_$rand.jpg')..writeAsBytesSync(Im.encodeJpg(image, quality: 85));
}
Then I uploaded compressedImage
to firebase storage. You can adjust the quality that the jpg is saved with using the quality property, in my case I chose 85 (out of 100).
Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.
The following code is what I use to take an image with the camera and then compress it:
import 'dart:async' show Future;
import 'dart:io' show File;
import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show compute;
import 'package:flutter/material.dart' show BuildContext;
import 'package:image/image.dart' as Im;
import 'dart:math' as Math;
import 'package:image_picker/image_picker.dart';
import 'package:path_provider/path_provider.dart' show getTemporaryDirectory;
Future<File> takeCompressedPicture(BuildContext context) async {
var _imageFile = await ImagePicker.pickImage(source: ImageSource.camera);
if (_imageFile == null) {
return null;
}
// You can have a loading dialog here but don't forget to pop before return file;
final tempDir = await getTemporaryDirectory();
final rand = Math.Random().nextInt(10000);
_CompressObject compressObject =
_CompressObject(_imageFile, tempDir.path, rand);
String filePath = await _compressImage(compressObject);
print('new path: ' + filePath);
File file = File(filePath);
// Pop loading
return file;
}
Future<String> _compressImage(_CompressObject object) async {
return compute(_decodeImage, object);
}
String _decodeImage(_CompressObject object) {
Im.Image image = Im.decodeImage(object.imageFile.readAsBytesSync());
Im.Image smallerImage = Im.copyResize(
image, 1024); // choose the size here, it will maintain aspect ratio
var decodedImageFile = File(object.path + '/img_${object.rand}.jpg');
decodedImageFile.writeAsBytesSync(Im.encodeJpg(smallerImage, quality: 85));
return decodedImageFile.path;
}
class _CompressObject {
File imageFile;
String path;
int rand;
_CompressObject(this.imageFile, this.path, this.rand);
}
You can call this very easy with this:
import 'path/to/compress_image.dart' as CompressImage;
// ...
File file = await CompressImage.takeCompressedPicture(context);
Besides mentioning this native library:
https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/flutter_image_compress
This is a fully dart based compressor with isolates, which might make the compression parallel to UI thread in multi core CPUs.
You might want to use compute function which makes using isolates simpler:
https://docs.flutter.io/flutter/foundation/compute.html
https://flutter.io/cookbook/networking/background-parsing/
import 'package:image/image.dart' as ImageLib;
import 'package:path_provider/path_provider.dart';
Future<void> getCompressedImage(SendPort sendPort) async {
ReceivePort receivePort = ReceivePort();
sendPort.send(receivePort.sendPort);
List msg = (await receivePort.first) as List;
String srcPath = msg[0];
String name = msg[1];
String destDirPath = msg[2];
SendPort replyPort = msg[3];
ImageLib.Image image =
ImageLib.decodeImage(await new File(srcPath).readAsBytes());
if (image.width > 500 || image.height > 500) {
image = ImageLib.copyResize(image, 500);
}
File destFile = new File(destDirPath + '/' + name);
await destFile.writeAsBytes(ImageLib.encodeJpg(image, quality: 60));
replyPort.send(destFile.path);
}
Future<File> compressImage(File f) async {
ReceivePort receivePort = ReceivePort();
await Isolate.spawn(getCompressedImage, receivePort.sendPort);
SendPort sendPort = await receivePort.first;
ReceivePort receivePort2 = ReceivePort();
sendPort.send([
f.path,
f.uri.pathSegments.last,
(await getTemporaryDirectory()).path,
receivePort2.sendPort,
]);
var msg = await receivePort2.first;
return new File(msg);
}
if (false ==
await SimplePermissions.checkPermission(
Permission.ReadExternalStorage)) {
await SimplePermissions.requestPermission(
Permission.ReadExternalStorage);
}
File img = await ImagePicker.pickImage(
source: ImageSource.gallery);
if (null != img) {
img = await compressImage(img);
}