Uploading image over API - Laravel 5.5

Hello,

I would like to upload an image my API but would like to have a bit of feedback on the best possible way to achieve this please.

1)Shall I encode base64 from the client side and decode from the laravel side.

or

2)Shall I sent my Android form to enctype="multipart/form-data" and try to upload the image this way?

What would be the best solution please?

Thanks