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universal_image

A flutter package to display all image types for all platforms

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flutter pub add universal_image

Package Overview

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Universal Image is a Flutter package designed to display various image formats across all major platforms, including Android, iOS, Web, macOS, Windows, and Linux. It simplifies image handling by providing a consistent API that automatically adapts to the platform's native image support. The package ensures reliable rendering of common image types without requiring additional configuration or platform-specific code. Ideal for apps needing broad image compatibility with minimal setup.

Use cases

  • Cross-platform image display
  • Support for multiple image formats
  • Unified image handling in multi-platform apps
  • Simplified image loading in web and desktop apps
  • Reducing platform-specific image code
  • Fast integration into existing Flutter projects

Key features

  • Supports all standard image formats
  • Automatic platform adaptation
  • Minimal configuration required
  • Consistent API across platforms
  • Built-in fallback mechanisms
  • Optimized performance on all targets

Suitable for

  • Developers targeting multiple platforms
  • Apps requiring diverse image format support
  • Projects aiming for code simplicity
  • Teams avoiding platform-specific image logic
  • Applications with dynamic or user-uploaded images
  • Desktop and web applications with image needs

Considerations

  • May not support rare or experimental image formats
  • Depends on underlying platform image libraries
  • Limited customization compared to specialized packages
  • Potential size overhead from included codecs
  • Requires internet access for remote image loading
  • Best suited for general use rather than advanced image processing

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universal_image

pub package

A comprehensive image package that provides a unified solution for displaying all major image formats across mobile, desktop, and web platforms in Flutter applications.
Skip the hassle of Image.network(), Image.asset(), or Image.memory() - simply pass your image source and let UniversalImage handle the rest

Key Features

  • Supports a wide range of image formats, including JPEG, PNG, GIF, Animated GIF, WebP, Animated WebP, BMP, and WBMP from the built-in Image widget.
  • Seamless integration with flutter_svg for rendering SVG images.
  • Powerful caching capabilities with extended_image for optimal performance.
  • Streamlined usage with imageUri, eliminating the need to specify network, asset, or file paths separately.
  • Ability to work with Icons font and memory-based images.

Example usage:

  • Assets provider
    var image = UniversalImage(
      'assets/image.png', // path must start with 'assets'
      color: Colors.black,
      matchTextDirection: false,
      scale: 1.0,
      width: 100,
      height: 100,
      frameBuilder: null,
      errorBuilder: null,
      semanticLabel: null,
      excludeFromSemantics: false,
      colorBlendMode: BlendMode.clear,
      fit: BoxFit.cover,
      alignment: Alignment.center,
      repeat: ImageRepeat.noRepeat,
      centerSlice: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, 100, 100),
      gaplessPlayback: false,
      isAntiAlias: false,
      filterQuality: FilterQuality.low,
      cacheWidth: 100,
      cacheHeight: 100,
      allowDrawingOutsideViewBox: false,
      placeholder: Container(),
      svgSkiaMode: true, // using flutter_svg on web, make sure building with FLUTTER_WEB_USE_SKIA=true
    );
  • File provider:
var image = UniversalImage(
      '/com.package.app/files/image.png', // image storage file path
      color: Colors.black,
      matchTextDirection: false,
      scale: 1.0,
      width: 100,
      height: 100,
      frameBuilder: null,
      errorBuilder: null,
      semanticLabel: null,
      excludeFromSemantics: false,
      colorBlendMode: BlendMode.clear,
      fit: BoxFit.cover,
      alignment: Alignment.center,
      repeat: ImageRepeat.noRepeat,
      centerSlice: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, 100, 100),
      gaplessPlayback: false,
      isAntiAlias: false,
      filterQuality: FilterQuality.low,
      cacheWidth: 100,
      cacheHeight: 100,
      allowDrawingOutsideViewBox: false,
      svgSkiaMode: false,
      placeholder: Container(),
    );
  • Network provider:
var image = UniversalImage(
      'https://flutter.github.io/assets-for-api-docs/assets/widgets/owl.jpg',
      color: Colors.black,
      matchTextDirection: false,
      scale: 1.0,
      width: 100,
      height: 100,
      frameBuilder: null,
      errorBuilder: null,
      semanticLabel: null,
      excludeFromSemantics: false,
      colorBlendMode: BlendMode.clear,
      fit: BoxFit.cover,
      alignment: Alignment.center,
      repeat: ImageRepeat.noRepeat,
      centerSlice: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, 100, 100),
      gaplessPlayback: false,
      isAntiAlias: false,
      filterQuality: FilterQuality.low,
      cacheWidth: 100,
      cacheHeight: 100,
      allowDrawingOutsideViewBox: false,
      svgSkiaMode: false,
      placeholder: Container(),
    );
  • Icon provider:
var image = UniversalImage(
      Icons.add,
      color: Colors.black,
      size: 30,
      textDirection: TextDirection.ltr
    );
  • Base64 provider:
Uint8List data = await loadImage();
var base64String = data.base64Image; // or replace any base64 image string 
var image = UniversalImage(
      base64String,
      color: Colors.black,
      matchTextDirection: false,
      scale: 1.0,
      width: 100,
      height: 100,
      frameBuilder: null,
      errorBuilder: null,
      semanticLabel: null,
      excludeFromSemantics: false,
      colorBlendMode: BlendMode.clear,
      fit: BoxFit.cover,
      alignment: Alignment.center,
      repeat: ImageRepeat.noRepeat,
      centerSlice: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, 100, 100),
      gaplessPlayback: false,
      isAntiAlias: false,
      filterQuality: FilterQuality.low,
      cacheWidth: 100,
      cacheHeight: 100,
      allowDrawingOutsideViewBox: false,
    );
  • Bytes memory provider:
Uint8List data = await loadImage();
var image = UniversalImage(
      data,
      color: Colors.black,
      matchTextDirection: false,
      scale: 1.0,
      width: 100,
      height: 100,
      frameBuilder: null,
      errorBuilder: null,
      semanticLabel: null,
      excludeFromSemantics: false,
      colorBlendMode: BlendMode.clear,
      fit: BoxFit.cover,
      alignment: Alignment.center,
      repeat: ImageRepeat.noRepeat,
      centerSlice: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, 100, 100),
      gaplessPlayback: false,
      isAntiAlias: false,
      filterQuality: FilterQuality.low,
      cacheWidth: 100,
      cacheHeight: 100,
      allowDrawingOutsideViewBox: false,
    );

License

License

Copyright (C) 2020 ductranit

Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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