Opening WebP Image Format in Windows Phone 8

Question

In any case, to open WebP images in Windows Phone applications? I have a huge set of images to download from the Internet, and jpg / png is heavy, so you are looking for an image format that will reduce downloaded data without compromising quality.

Answer 1

First, I recommend you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP#Criticism . Secondly, since WebP is the web standard for images, you can try using WebBrowser as your image control. Finally, I believe that the reason you cannot reduce the quality is because you want to use the same image as the thumbnail. I suggest you create a process that will generate a thumbnail, for example, 480px x 800px. Now your Windows Phone application can display a “preview” of the image, and if the user wants to see the full one, he must wait.