Serving images across mobile and web

Asked Oct 21 '17 at 08:48

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I need to build a web portal that uploads images to a database. These images will be displayed in an android app, and the web portal.

The common method I use when dealing strictly with apps is as follows:

compress the picture
encode it to a base91 string
send to server for storage

How do I achieve this in the context of a website(using javascript or python)? particularly the encode/decode (Base91) part.

ps: My experience with web is very basic.

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asked Oct 21 '17 at 08:48

BiGGZ

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`compress the picture`. If it is a jpg file there is nothing to compress. – greenapps Oct 21 '17 at 09:05
`encode it to a Base91 string`. Base91? Whats that? Strange. You first want to compress. To reduce the amount of bytes you have to transfer i think. And now you want to base64 encode? You get 30% more bytes to transfer. Bad idea. Better just upload the file. – greenapps Oct 21 '17 at 09:07
What has this webportal to do with Android? – greenapps Oct 21 '17 at 09:09
Who is uploading the images to the webserver? – greenapps Oct 21 '17 at 09:12
if its 5mb, i compress it to about 2-300kb, then encode to base91(<33% increase in size) so i can store it as a string. – BiGGZ Oct 21 '17 at 09:32
The web portal is where the content of the platform is generated. This content(the pictures) is consumed by the android app – BiGGZ Oct 21 '17 at 09:33
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So base91 exists. Learned again something. – greenapps Oct 21 '17 at 10:01
If the content is generated in the web portal then i do not understand what has to be uploaded. – greenapps Oct 21 '17 at 10:02
You are not compressing your files i think but resizing your images. Confusing talk. – greenapps Oct 21 '17 at 10:03
Generated/uploaded, i mean the same thing sir. And no, im not resizing the images, im compressing them(or atleast i want to) – BiGGZ Oct 21 '17 at 10:25
How would you compress a jpg file of 2MB to 300KB? – greenapps Oct 21 '17 at 11:03
`Generated/uploaded, i mean the same thing`. Difficult talking with you in this way. As a programmer you could be more exact. – greenapps Oct 21 '17 at 11:06
`This content(the pictures) is consumed by the android app`. So the android app will not upload pictures? – greenapps Oct 21 '17 at 11:11
"Difficult talking with you in this way. As a programmer you could be more exact" ok, lets stick to uploaded. – BiGGZ Oct 21 '17 at 11:29
"So the android app will not upload pictures?" no it wont – BiGGZ Oct 21 '17 at 11:29

Serving images across mobile and web

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