I wanted to do some image compression before uploading to my Firestore and ran into following thread: Flutter & Firebase: Compression before upload image
The uploading works totally fine, but I cannot recognize any compression regarding the file size... Even if I decrease the quality from 85 to 1, the file still has the same size. Same thing if I upload the image without calling the compression method at all. Here is the code snippet:
void compressImage() async {
print('starting compression');
final tempDir = await getTemporaryDirectory();
final path = tempDir.path;
int rand = new Math.Random().nextInt(10000);
Im.Image image = Im.decodeImage(file.readAsBytesSync());
Im.copyResize(image, 500);
// image.format = Im.Image.RGBA;
// Im.Image newim = Im.remapColors(image, alpha: Im.LUMINANCE);
Im.Image smallerImage = Im.copyResize(image, 500); // choose the size here, it will maintain aspect ratio
var newim2 = new File('$path/img_$rand.jpg')
..writeAsBytesSync(Im.encodeJpg(smallerImage, quality: 85));
setState(() {
file = newim2;
});
print('done');
}
Any idea what I have to change, to make the compression working?
Best regards!