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I’ve used Google’s Firebase/Firestore database solution for nearly 6 months and had come to believe that it was an unstoppable force. If you’re only dealing with numbers, strings, and other simple data forms, this is true. The NoSQL database gives you immense control over how you store information a provides querying tools that can be used to find items meeting very specific criteria in a snap. But if you’re interested in storing and retrieving larger files like images and audio clips, Firestore is not the solution you need. ...

image—- title: “Image Compression in Flutter” date: 2022-09-17T16:26:21-04:00 draft: false categories: [“tutorials”] tags: [“flutter”,“mobile”] Inspired by this Stack Overflow post For an app that deals heavily with uploading and downloading images from a server, file size can make or break the user experience. Large files will take longer to save, display, and manipulate, all of which will affect the app’s network performance. Depending on how image-heavy the application is, users may spend more time staring at loading screens than actually interacting with content. ...