Image (re)compression is pretty aggressive
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Description
Keybase on Android recompressed this image (54 kB):

into this (48 kB):

…which degraded quality subjectively by 80% 😬.
Keybase 5.2.0-20200129023808
Android 10 on Google Pixel 1
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Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing the reported conversion on Android 10 with the supplied image, then trace the Android image-handling path to identify where recompression occurs; done means preserving substantially better image quality without an unacceptable size increase.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android
- Domain
- mobile-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100