Image Manipulator Plugin

@capacitor-community/image-manipulator

Capacitor community plugin to manipulate images (resize, compress, crop etc.)

Table of Contents

• Maintainers
• About
• Plugin versions
• Supported Platforms
• Install
• API
• Troubleshooting

Maintainers

Maintainer	GitHub	Active
ryaa	ryaa	yes

About

This capcitor plugin allows reading image dimensions (width and height) and resize images. This plugin is inspired and similar to cordova-plugin-image-resizer plugin. Please note that it does not depend on cordova-plugin-camera plugin and can be used independently.

Features:

• supports getting image dimensions
• supports resizing image
• supports Android and iOS platforms

Plugin versions

Capacitor version	Plugin version
6.x	6.x

Supported Platforms

• iOS
• Android

Install

npm install @capacitor-community/image-manipulator
npx cap sync

API

• getDimensions(...)
• resize(...)
• Interfaces

getDimensions(...)

getDimensions(options: GetDimensionsOptions) => Promise<{ width: number; height: number; }>

Get dimensions of an image (width and height)

Param	Type	Description
options	GetDimensionsOptions	options to get dimensions of an image

Returns: Promise<{ width: number; height: number; }>

Since: 6.0.0

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resize(...)

resize(options: ResizeOptions) => Promise<{ originalWidth: number; originalHeight: number; resizedWidth: number; resizedHeight: number; imagePath: string; webPath: string; resized: boolean; }>

Method to resize an image based on the provided options and return the resized image details. Please note that the resized image will respect the aspect ratio of the original image and will be resized to be equal to less of the provided maxWidth or maxHeight. If the image both width and height are less than the provided maxWidth and maxHeight, the image will not be resized and the original image details will be returned with resized as false. If either maxWidth or maxHeight is not provided or 0, this parameter will be ignored (not used) and the image will be resized based on the provided maxWidth or maxHeight, accordingly. Please note that either maxWidth or maxHeight must be provided to resize an image.

Param	Type	Description
options	ResizeOptions	Options to resize an image

Returns: Promise<{ originalWidth: number; originalHeight: number; resizedWidth: number; resizedHeight: number; imagePath: string; webPath: string; resized: boolean; }>

Since: 6.0.0

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Interfaces

GetDimensionsOptions

Prop	Type	Description	Since
imagePath	string	The path to the image to get its dimensions.	6.0.0

ResizeOptions

Prop	Type	Description	Since
imagePath	string	The path to the image to resize.	6.0.0
folderName	string	(Android Only) The name of the folder to store the resized images (optional, defaults to 'ResizedImages' if not provided).	6.0.0
fileName	string	The name of the resized file without extension (optional, timestamp as name if not provided).	6.0.0
quality	number	The resized image quality from 0 to 100, where 100 is max (optional, defaults to 85 if not provided).	6.0.0
maxWidth	number	The max width of the resized image (optional, but at least either height or width must be provided).	6.0.0
maxHeight	number	The max height of the resized image (optional, but at least either width or height must be provided).	6.0.0
fixRotation	boolean	Fix the rotation of the image based on EXIF metadata (optional, defaults to false if not provided).	6.0.0

Usage

Please also see example-app for a complete example.

Resize image

import { ImageManipulator } from '@capacitor-community/image-manipulator';

const options: ImageResizeOptions = {
  imagePath: 'path/to/image.jpg',
  maxWidth: 300,
  maxHeight: 300,
  quality: 85,
  folderName: 'ResizedImages',
  fileName: 'resized',
  fixRotation: true
};
const result = await ImageManipulator.resize(options);

Resize image

import { ImageManipulator } from '@capacitor-community/image-manipulator';

const options: GetDimensionsOptions = {
  imagePath: 'path/to/image.jpg'
};
const result = await ImageManipulator.getDimensions(options);