Firebase Storage How to store and Retrieve images

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How to store and view images on firebase

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There are a couple of ways of doing I first did the way Grendal2501 did it  I then did it similar to user15163  you can store the image URL in the firebase and host the image on your firebase host or also Amazon S3

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Yes  you can store and view images in Firebase  You can use a filepicker to get the image file  Then you can host the image however you want  I prefer Amazon s3  Once the image is hosted you can display the image using the URL generated for the image   Hope this helps

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You can also use a service called Filepicker which will store your image to their servers and Filepicker which is now called Filestack  will provide you with a url to the image  You can than store the url to Firebase

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I ended up storing the images in base64 format myself  I translate them from their base64 value when called back from firebase

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Update  20160519   Firebase just released a new feature called Firebase Storage  This allows you to upload images and other non-JSON data to a dedicated storage service  We highly recommend that you use this for storing images  instead of storing them as base64 encoded data in the JSON database   You certainly can  Depending on how big your images are  you have a couple options   1  For smaller images  under 10mb   We have an example project that does that here   https   github com firebase firepano  The general approach is to load the file locally  using FileReader  so you can then store it in Firebase just as you would any other data   Since images are binary files  you ll want to get the base64-encoded contents so you can store it as a string   Or even more convenient  you can store it as a data  url which is then ready to plop in as the src of an img tag  this is what the example does    2  For larger images  Firebase does have a 10mb  of utf8-encoded string data  limit  If your image is bigger  you ll have to break it into 10mb chunks  You re right though that Firebase is more optimized for small strings that change frequently rather than multi-megabyte strings  If you have lots of large static data  I d definitely recommend S3 or a CDN instead

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Using Base64 string in JSON will be very heavy  The parser has to do a lot of heavy lifting  Currently  Fresco only supports base supports Base64  Better you put something on Amazon Cloud or Firebase Cloud  And get an image as a URL  So that you can use Picasso or Glide for caching

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