# Image to Base64 encoded string new component
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-to-base64-encoded-string-new-component/1624709
**Category:** Feedback
**Tags:** image, base64
**Created:** [November 19, 2021, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-to-base64-encoded-string-new-component/1624709 "2021-11-19T12:35:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-to-base64-encoded-string-new-component/1624709/1 "2021-11-19T12:35:20Z")
I just tested the newly added component in the `Camera and Media` drawer.
I gave it a URL to test what will happen if the image is not part of the project assets. The process is slow but it works. I was able to use the API I built to save the image in Google drive and it worked successfully.
Thank you Thunkable team.
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### Author:  [@good-starter432425](https://community.thunkable.com/u/good-starter432425)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-to-base64-encoded-string-new-component/1624709/2 "2021-11-19T12:57:21Z")
if a process is slow i make a button and a loading icon to the same place and when the button is pressed i make the button invisible and the loading icon visible.
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-to-base64-encoded-string-new-component/1624709/3 "2021-11-19T15:21:44Z")
I’m here giving a feedback and not asking for a solution for the speed.
In this experiment you need to consider 2 actions that are time consuming by nature.
- Retrieving the image from a remote location (internet URL)
- Converting the image from its current form to a long Base64 encoded string.
However, it is nice to have this feature which can open more doors of how to manipulate images.
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-to-base64-encoded-string-new-component/1624709/4 "2021-11-19T15:30:58Z")
I’m curious what that then allows you to do that wasn’t possible (or as easy) without Base64 encoding?
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-to-base64-encoded-string-new-component/1624709/5 "2021-11-19T15:38:43Z")
> [@tatiang](#):
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> what that then allows you to do
I prefer using `Firebase` for its speed and simplicity and up until this functionality, you will have to store your data in `Firebase` and store your images in `Cloudinary` if you don’t want to use APIs to push the images in a different cloud.
Now that this option is available, you can store the image as a Base64 string in `Firebase` as easy as storing any other variable. This allows me to get rid of the `Media DB` connector and gives the freedom of saving the images in a single **Datastore** along with app data.
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### Author:  [@good-starter432425](https://community.thunkable.com/u/good-starter432425)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-to-base64-encoded-string-new-component/1624709/6 "2021-11-19T17:19:51Z")
okay 😟
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/image-to-base64-encoded-string-new-component/1624709/7 "2024-11-08T13:14:26Z")