Large images take longer to load and may result in awful user experience. Users always prefer negligible load times and don’t want to see the loading indicator. Reducing image size can also reduce the monthly bills of the image storage and hosting service you are using. Image compression feature is unavoidable if you are app has a feature where the user is uploading an image. This is necessary because you cannot predict how large an image the user is going to upload.

Dart already has image compression libraries, but they are not so effective as the compression is slow and image quality is reduced significantly. Thankfully, Flutter has a package called  flutter_image_compress that natively compresses the images.

Below given are the step by step tutorial on how to compress an image in Flutter using the  flutter_image_compress plugin.

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