Image compression between OSs

[ivanrcks95]

Hello everyone, recently i did a little experiment involving Instagram and its image compression. I took the same image taken by my DSLR, uploaded one using my S8 and the other using a friends iPhone 10. The quality of the image uploaded by the iPhone was so much more sharper and detailed than that on my S8. After reading up on this, apparently this is due to the fact that there are so many different android devices, Instagram cant make an app that is dedicated to them all, therefore has a universal one. While obviously on apples side it can focus on making just 2/3. This then affects the quality of the image that is uploaded. Now my question is, is there any workaround to this aside from doing the typical lightroom resize to 1080px (which from my testing still doesnt provide as sharp of an image as on an iphone, but does help), or simply going out and buying an iPhone? Perhaps a modded apk which works around this? I havent been able to find much doing a google search so maybe someone on here can help. Thanks in advance. 

[GoodBytes]

Yes, use an app like Skype doesn't do image compression, and send what you send as is in all it's glory.

 

Actually, Instagram can use it's own image compression and have it standard everywhere. It is not taxing to compress an image, even on old and slow phones. They probably rely on the OS built-in utility APIs to do the work for them, and the result of the compression and decompression varies based on the OS version.

 

While at it, if you send an image via iMessage, it does like Skype, it sends it as is, if I am not mistaken. However, if you use SMS, then because SMS doesn't actually support file transfers, and really sends the image as a series of text messages (limited to 140 chars for binary data) the SMS app itself highly compresses the image before sending it to reduce the number of messages it needs to send.

[Kilrah]

Instagram could very easily make the android app's processing as good, regardless of what device. But instagram has never actually cared about image quality in the first place, so they don't bother, they just use whatever's the easiest.

[ivanrcks95]

31 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

Yes, use an app like Skype doesn't do image compression, and send what you send as is in all it's glory.

 

Actually, Instagram can use it's own image compression and have it standard everywhere. It is not taxing to compress an image, even on old and slow phones. They probably rely on the OS built-in utility APIs to do the work for them, and the result of the compression and decompression varies based on the OS version.

 

While at it, if you send an image via iMessage, it does like Skype, it sends it as is, if I am not mistaken. However, if you use SMS, then because SMS doesn't actually support file transfers, and really sends the image as a series of text messages (limited to 140 chars for binary data) the SMS app itself highly compresses the image before sending it to reduce the number of messages it needs to send.

Cheers for the reply, i was however looking for an answer specific to Instagram on android as its mostly what i use to share to my photography page, and to see if there are any walkarounds to keeping quality there.