This component handles all the hassle in dealing with photos in react native, it's built on top of react-native-image-picker
, react-native-image-resizer
and react-native-fs
it takes an image component and upon click, you get the image picker prompt, get the base64 string of the image and the image source changes to whatever image was picked.
npm or yarn install
npm install react-native-photo-upload --save
or
yarn add react-native-photo-upload
link react-native-image-picker
, react-native-image-resizer
and react-native-fs
which the component depends on
react-native link react-native-image-picker
react-native link react-native-image-resizer
react-native link react-native-fs
The following steps are required by react-native-image-picker
for both Android and IOS even with automatic linking
- Update the android build tools version to
2.2.+
inandroid/build.gradle
(required step by `react-native-image-picker):
buildscript {
...
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.+' // <- USE 2.2.+ version
}
...
}
...
- Update the gradle version to
2.14.1
inandroid/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
:
...
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip
- Add the required permissions in
AndroidManifest.xml
:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
For iOS 10+, Add the NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription
, NSCameraUsageDescription
, and NSMicrophoneUsageDescription
(if allowing video) keys to your Info.plist
with strings describing why your app needs these permissions. Note: You will get a SIGABRT crash if you don't complete this step
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
...
<key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key>
<string>photo</string>
<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>
<string>camera</string>
</dict>
</plist>
check the docs of each library on how to link manually.
Wrap your default image inside the PhotoUpload component, the component wraps the image with TouchableOpacity, on press it will trigger the image picker prompt. after selecting a new image from the picker, the image source will get replaced with the new image base64 string as uri
<PhotoUpload>
<Image
source={{
uri: 'https://www.sparklabs.com/forum/styles/comboot/theme/images/default_avatar.jpg'
}}
/>
</PhotoUpload>
import { Image } from 'react-native'
import PhotoUpload from 'react-native-photo-upload'
<PhotoUpload
onPhotoSelect={avatar => {
if (avatar) {
console.log('Image base64 string: ', avatar)
}
}}
>
<Image
style={{
paddingVertical: 30,
width: 150,
height: 150,
borderRadius: 75
}}
resizeMode='cover'
source={{
uri: 'https://www.sparklabs.com/forum/styles/comboot/theme/images/default_avatar.jpg'
}}
/>
</PhotoUpload>
Prop | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
containerStyle | Object | Style object for the image container |
photoPickerTitle | String | Title for the image picker prompt, default is 'Select Photo' |
height | Number | the resized image height, default is 300 |
width | Number | the resized image width, default is 300 |
format | String | The format desired of the resized image, 'JPEG' or 'PNG' default is 'JPEG' |
quality | Number | The quality of the resized image indicated by a number between 1 and 100, default is 80 |
onPhotoSelect | Function | function which takes the base64 string of the new image as parameter |