Take picture and convert to Base64

Question

I use code below to make a picture with camera. Instead of saving I would like to encode it to Base64 and after that pass it to another API as an input. I can\'

Answer 1

Just for converting from bitmap to base64 string in kotlin I use:

private fun encodeImage(bm: Bitmap): String? {
        val baos = ByteArrayOutputStream()
        bm.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, baos)
        val b = baos.toByteArray()
        return Base64.encodeToString(b, Base64.DEFAULT)
    }