image_converter.dart

// imgLib -> Image package from https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/image
import 'package:image/image.dart' as imglib;
import 'package:camera/camera.dart';

imglib.Image convertCameraImagetoImage(CameraImage image) {
  try {
    if (image.format.group == ImageFormatGroup.yuv420) {
      return _convertYUV420(image);
    } else if (image.format.group == ImageFormatGroup.bgra8888) {
      return _convertBGRA8888(image);
    }
    return null;
  } catch (e) {
    print(">>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR:" + e.toString());
  }
  return null;
}

Future<List<int>> convertCameraImagetoPng(CameraImage image) async {
  try {
    imglib.PngEncoder pngEncoder = new imglib.PngEncoder();

    // Convert to png
    List<int> png = pngEncoder.encodeImage(convertCameraImagetoImage(image));
    return png;
  } catch (e) {
    print(">>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR:" + e.toString());
  }
  return null;
}

// CameraImage BGRA8888 -> PNG
// Color
imglib.Image _convertBGRA8888(CameraImage image) {
  return imglib.Image.fromBytes(
    image.width,
    image.height,
    image.planes[0].bytes,
    format: imglib.Format.bgra,
  );
}

// CameraImage YUV420_888 -> PNG -> Image (compresion:0, filter: none)
// Black
imglib.Image _convertYUV420(CameraImage image) {
  var img = imglib.Image(image.width, image.height); // Create Image buffer

  Plane plane = image.planes[0];
  const int shift = (0xFF << 24);

  // Fill image buffer with plane[0] from YUV420_888
  for (int x = 0; x < image.width; x++) {
    for (int planeOffset = 0;
    planeOffset < image.height * image.width;
    planeOffset += image.width) {
      final pixelColor = plane.bytes[planeOffset + x];
      // color: 0x FF  FF  FF  FF
      //           A   B   G   R
      // Calculate pixel color
      var newVal = shift | (pixelColor << 16) | (pixelColor << 8) | pixelColor;

      img.data[planeOffset + x] = newVal;
    }
  }

  return img;
}