Hi, I believe that ‘camera’ component stores the local path of image. That is why when I try to see the saved photo from any other device, the photo does not show up. Correct me if I’m wrong. So if this is the case, is there anyway to make the picture taken and show it up ‘globally’. Like it is v…

I’ll explain again. To have your image accessible by others, you need to store it in a place in the internet that can be reached by others. [image] gkriti.1678n2l: the value saved is coming like - “file:///storage/emulated/0/Pictures/image-b4762… This is the URL which Media DB will use to up…

Please show your code. Where are you storing the image?

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You need to use Cloudinary with Media DB to save images not Firebase.

As far as I understand, media db just returns a media url, and in the docs it mentions cloudinary is not mandatory , but should be used as a safe measure for privacy of your pics. Here, I used firebase to save images corresponding to a user email.

So can you explain where are you saving the actual image and where are you saving the URL of the image? If you want to save the image to Firebase you then need to convert it to Base64 before saving the image to Realtime DB.

See this post [image] Uploading an image of a canvas to cloudinary Questions about Thunkable Hi there, I took a look at this post and thought you might find this project interesting. When you click the Button, it: Saves the image of the canvas as a cloud variables Uses…

umm… the algorithm is like… when user clicks on snap button - > call camera → upload the photo to media url to get url → save this url (key) against an email id (value) in firebase Point is, it is working if I snap using mobile ‘x’, but if I open the app using mobile’y’, the image doesn’t show up. …

To have your image accessible by other users, you have to save the image on a cloud storage that the users can reach. Where are you saving the image to get the URL from the saved image. Please note, I am not talking about the upload URL, I’m taking about the URL generated after uploading the image …

Right. You’re saving the value of the green Photo block which is the actual image file. You should be saving the green mediaURL block instead which is the text url for the hosted image.

[image] tatiang: value of the green Photo block which is the actual image file. You should be saving the green mediaURL block instead which is the text url for the hosted image. Oh oki, so you are saying that I need to attach ‘media url’ block as value while saving to realtime database, corre…

Images taken with Camera not shown up when we open app from another mobile/laptop

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Images taken with Camera not shown up when we open app from another mobile/laptop

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