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I am trying to base64encode an image on android. i plan to then transfer it as text to my mysql database on my hosting account (as a blob). Problem is, when i execute the script on my samsung s4 phone, the base64encode step appears to take forever and eventually my phone reports that my application is not responding. I am not sure how long it takes to encode an image file taken from the phones camera (8mp i think). I have an image called "thumbnail" and i manage to put the photo into image thumbnail fine. My command to base64encode this image is :-

put base64encode (image thumbnail) into image_base64

I was hoping that my variable "image_base64" would contain the encoded text but i never get that far..

Any thoughts? And would anyone have a guess as to how long a phone would take to do this process?

thanks in advance.

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Ok, remember that the text contains only the informations on pixels, but not the size an image. For example an image made of 16 pixels may be 4x4, 8x2 or 16x1. So you have to store in another variable the size (width and height).

However you probably don't need to use base64encode, you could send binary data directly to your database:
From http://livecode.wikia.com/wiki/SQLite :

Working with binaries

In order to upload binaries, you need to use the variable in the revExecuteSQL.

The SQLStatement may contain one or more placeholders, which are sequential numbers prepended by a colon. The revExecuteSQL command substitutes the corresponding item in the variablesList for each of these placeholders. For example, if you have two variables called "valueX" and "valueY", you can use a SQLStatement that includes placeholders as follows:
when using binaries, you have to insert the *b prefix in variable name; so if you variable containing a binary is "valueX", the correct code is:
Since the revExecuteSQL command strips the binary marker "*b" and passes it to the database as binary data, rather than text data.

Example with UPDATE: