@capawesome-team/capacitor-file-compressor¶

Capacitor plugin for compressing files.

Features¶

🖥️ Cross-platform: Supports Android, iOS and Web.
🌅 Compress Images: Compress png, jpeg, and webp images.
📦 SPM: Supports Swift Package Manager for iOS.
🔁 Up-to-date: Always supports the latest Capacitor version.
⭐️ Support: First-class support from the Capawesome Team.

Compatibility¶

Plugin Version	Capacitor Version	Status
6.x.x	6.x.x	Deprecated
7.x.x	>=7.x.x	Active support

Installation¶

This plugin is only available to Capawesome Insiders. First, make sure you have the Capawesome npm registry set up. You can do this by running the following commands:

npm config set @capawesome-team:registry https://npm.registry.capawesome.io
npm config set //npm.registry.capawesome.io/:_authToken <YOUR_LICENSE_KEY>

Attention: Replace <YOUR_LICENSE_KEY> with the license key you received from Polar. If you don't have a license key yet, you can get one by becoming a Capawesome Insider.

Next, install the package:

npm install @capawesome-team/capacitor-file-compressor
npx cap sync

Android¶

Proguard¶

If you are using Proguard, you need to add the following rules to your proguard-rules.pro file:

-keep class io.capawesome.capacitorjs.plugins.** { *; }

Variables¶

This plugin will use the following project variables (defined in your app’s variables.gradle file):

$androidxDocumentFileVersion version of androidx.documentfile:documentfile (default: 1.0.1)

Configuration¶

No configuration required for this plugin.

Demo¶

A working example can be found here: capawesome-team/capacitor-plugin-demo

Android

Usage¶

import { FileCompressor } from '@capawesome-team/capacitor-file-compressor';

const compressImage = async () => {
  const { path } = await FileCompressor.compressImage({
    mimeType: 'image/jpeg',
    path: 'content://com.android.providers.downloads.documents/document/msf%3A1000000485',
    quality: 0.7,
  });
  return path;
};

compressImage(...)¶

compressImage(options: CompressImageOptions) => Promise<CompressImageResult>

Compress an image.

Only png, jpeg, and webp images are supported.

Attention: The exif data of the image is lost during compression.

Param	Type
`options`	`CompressImageOptions`

Returns: Promise<CompressImageResult>

Since: 5.0.0

Interfaces¶

CompressImageResult¶

Prop	Type	Description	Since
`path`	`string`	The path of the compressed file. Only available on Android and iOS.	5.0.0
`blob`	`Blob`	The blob of the compressed file. Only available on Web.	5.0.0

CompressImageOptions¶

Prop	Type	Description	Default	Since
`blob`	`Blob`	The blob of the file to compress. Only available on Web.		5.0.0
`mimeType`	`string`	The mime type of the compressed file. On Android, only `image/jpeg` and `image/webp` are supported. On iOS, only `image/jpeg` is supported. On Web, only `image/jpeg` and `image/webp` are supported.	`'image/jpeg'`	5.0.0
`path`	`string`	The path of the file to compress. Only available on Android and iOS.		5.0.0
`quality`	`number`	The quality of the resulting image, expressed as a value from `0.0` to `1.0`. The value `0.0` represents the maximum compression (or lowest quality) while the value `1.0` represents the least compression (or best quality).	`0.6`	5.0.0

Changelog¶

See CHANGELOG.md.

License¶

See LICENSE.