What is AVIF?
AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is an image format designed to offer superior image compression and quality compared to traditional formats. It delivers smaller file sizes without significant loss in quality, making it ideal for web applications, image storage, and streaming. AVIF supports both lossless and lossy compression, as well as high dynamic range (HDR), wide color gamut (WCG), transparency, and animation, offering flexibility and versatility. As an open standard, AVIF is gaining widespread adoption across major platforms and web browsers, providing an efficient solution for high-quality image compression.
The compression techniques introduced in the AV1 codec enable superior compression gains: AVIF can provide over 50% file size savings compared to JPEG and over 30% savings compared to WebP. AVIF is supported by a number of web browsers, such as Chrome, Firefox and Opera. The mobile ecosystem has enjoyed AVIF support since Android 12 . Glide image loading library for Android added AVIF in version 4.
AVIF Specification and Source Code
AVIF Image File Format Specification
AVIF Image File format
Official AVIF Implementation
https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif
AVIF Resources and Tutorials
Getting started with libavif encoder
Using Modern Image Formats: AVIF And WebP
Using AVIF to compress images on your site