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Convert dataURI to Blob so large images do not crash the browser. Based on: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10412299 and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6850276
/*
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016 David Gomez-Urquiza
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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*/
function dataURItoBlob(dataURI) {
// convert base64 to raw binary data held in a string
var byteString = atob(dataURI.split(',')[1]);
// separate out the mime component
var mimeString = dataURI.split(',')[0].split(':')[1].split(';')[0];
// write the bytes of the string to an ArrayBuffer
var arrayBuffer = new ArrayBuffer(byteString.length);
var _ia = new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer);
for (var i = 0; i < byteString.length; i++) {
_ia[i] = byteString.charCodeAt(i);
}
var dataView = new DataView(arrayBuffer);
var blob = new Blob([dataView], { type: mimeString });
return blob;
}
@farheen14aslam
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Hello .. I am trying to upload a file of size 80 MB, but my app crashes executing "var byteString = atob(dataURI.split(',')[1]);"
Is there any other way to write the file using filewriter when the data uri is too large.

@Sardorjon
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Thanks for sharing

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