How to create new ImageMessage from remote URL

[thomers]

Hello, what's the best way to create a new ImageMessage from a known remote URL (and the "author" attributes of course)?

Both ImageMessage and PartialImage have "size" as required, so should I do a HTTP "head" first and get the content-length from the response headers? Or is there a better / easier way?

[thomers]

Also: How do I refer to an image from the assets bundle for a ImageMessage?

And to an image that I have downloaded and stored locally manually (in another part of my app)?

[demchenkoalex]

Hey!

size property is used only to show the size of the image if image is presented as a file message (when image is too large to be presented inline). You can safely pass 0 there. I will make this optional in v2.

As for referring image from local storage, is FileImage good enough? See this code - if uri of the image message does not start with the http it will try to use FileImage to show it. I use it to show images picked from the phone gallery.

[thomers]

Thanks @demchenkoalex , here's a PR to add support for URIs referencing images from the app's "assets" resources. #619