Hello guys, So I am using rememberLauncherForActiv...

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Hello guys, So I am using rememberLauncherForActivityResult to start a camera activity(to take a video). I've been able to successfully retrieve the uri of the video. Now I want to be able send this video over a server, but I have to send it as a ByteArray, so my question is what is the best way to convert a video uri to a ByteArray in kotlin? There seems to lack a lot of guides on video, but only for images, string etc and they are also mostly done on java too

[marlonlom]

Hi, this link form stackoverflow could give you an idea about it.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10296734/image-uri-to-bytesarray

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Thanks, I'll look into that

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I am actually making use of the first answer but then I encountered a memory error, but I'll have a look at the others as well

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lol actually just noticed the owner made some changes to the answer on this new post. Thanks again

[marlonlom]

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@marlonlom it seems this method isn't recommended for large videos. So I will have to find some other way

[marlonlom]

🤔 ... @shock 11 try this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7913384/how-to-convert-video-from-uri-to-byte
in large videos, try to do this using coroutines and/or workmanager, as this could be a background operation

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yeah that's also a nice suggestion. I will consider that thank you