Quick start guides

We maintain SDKs for various front-end, back-end, and mobile platforms and have listed plugins in marketplaces like WordPress, Magento, etc. The following quick start guides will help you integrate ImageKit using SDKs.

Front-end guides cover the following media use cases:

• Loading optimized images & videos.
• Basic resizing & cropping of images & videos.
• Adding text & image overlays.
• Using chained transformations to apply multiple transformations in a single request.
• Lazy loading images.
• Low-quality image placeholders.
• File upload, tagging, and metadata operations.

Choose your technology to get started with ImageKit:

We have native SDKs for iOS and Android. These SDKs cover the following media use cases:

• Construcing URLs for optimized images & videos, including adaptive bitrate streaming for videos.
• Loading optimized images & videos. Android SDK integrates with popular image-loading libraries like Glide, Picasso, Coil, and Fresco.
• Responsive image loading.
• File upload and upload policy to control network type, retry policy, and more.
• Preprocessing images & videos before upload to control file size, dimensions, etc.

Back-end guides cover the following media use cases:

• URL construction for optimized images & videos, including applying transformations.
• Generating signed URLs for secure delivery of media.
• Generating authentication parameters to facilitate secure upload from the client side.
• File upload, tagging, and metadata operations.
• Developer-friendly wrapper functions for media management APIs.

We publish tutorials on blogs providing step-by-step instructions along with full code snippets. Here are a few tutorials that you might find interesting:

• Full-fledged upload widget using Uppy. Let the user pick files from local, URL, Dropbox, Google Drive, Instagram, etc.
• Adding video player and implementing adaptive bitrate streaming - React and Next.js.
• File upload in Angular and PHP.
• Checkout all out blogs.