react-native-image-picker

A React Native module that allows you to use native UI to select a photo/video from the device library or directly from the camera, like so:

iOS

Android

Install

iOS

1. npm install react-native-image-picker@latest --save
2. In the XCode's "Project navigator", right click on your project's Libraries folder ➜ Add Files to <...>
3. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-image-picker ➜ ios ➜ select RNImagePicker.xcodeproj
4. Add RNImagePicker.a to Build Phases -> Link Binary With Libraries
5. Compile and have fun

Android

1. npm install react-native-image-picker@latest --save

// file: android/settings.gradle
...

include ':react-native-image-picker'
project(':react-native-image-picker').projectDir = new File(settingsDir, '../node_modules/react-native-image-picker/android')

// file: android/app/build.gradle
...

dependencies {
    ...
    compile project(':react-native-image-picker')
}

<!-- file: android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml -->
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.myApp">

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

    <!-- add following permissions -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
    <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" android:required="true"/>
    <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.autofocus" />
    <!-- -->
    ...

// file: MainActivity.java
...

import com.imagepicker.ImagePickerPackage; // import package

public class MainActivity extends ReactActivity {

   /**
   * A list of packages used by the app. If the app uses additional views
   * or modules besides the default ones, add more packages here.
   */
    @Override
    protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
        return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
            new MainReactPackage(),
            new ImagePickerPackage(this) // Add package
        );
    }
...
}

Usage

1. In your React Native javascript code, bring in the native module:

var ImagePickerManager = require('NativeModules').ImagePickerManager;

2. Use it like so:

When you want to display the picker:

var options = {
  title: 'Select Avatar', // specify null or empty string to remove the title
  cancelButtonTitle: 'Cancel',
  takePhotoButtonTitle: 'Take Photo...', // specify null or empty string to remove this button
  chooseFromLibraryButtonTitle: 'Choose from Library...', // specify null or empty string to remove this button
  customButtons: {
    'Choose Photo from Facebook': 'fb', // [Button Text] : [String returned upon selection]
  },
  cameraType: 'back', // 'front' or 'back'
  mediaType: 'photo', // 'photo' or 'video'
  videoQuality: 'high', // 'low', 'medium', or 'high'
  durationLimit: 10, // video recording max time in seconds
  maxWidth: 100, // photos only
  maxHeight: 100, // photos only
  aspectX: 2, // android only - aspectX:aspectY, the cropping image's ratio of width to height
  aspectY: 1, // android only - aspectX:aspectY, the cropping image's ratio of width to height
  quality: 0.2, // 0 to 1, photos only
  angle: 0, // android only, photos only
  allowsEditing: false, // Built in functionality to resize/reposition the image after selection
  noData: false, // photos only - disables the base64 `data` field from being generated (greatly improves performance on large photos)
  storageOptions: { // if this key is provided, the image will get saved in the documents directory on ios, and the pictures directory on android (rather than a temporary directory)
    skipBackup: true, // ios only - image will NOT be backed up to icloud
    path: 'images' // ios only - will save image at /Documents/images rather than the root
  }
};

/**
 * The first arg will be the options object for customization, the second is
 * your callback which sends object: response.
 *
 * response.didCancel will inform you if the user cancelled the process
 * response.error will contain an error message, if there is one
 * response.data is the base64 encoded image data (photos only)
 * response.uri is the uri to the local file asset on the device (photo or video)
 * response.isVertical will be true if the image is vertically oriented
 * response.width & response.height give you the image dimensions
 */

ImagePickerManager.showImagePicker(options, (response) => {
  console.log('Response = ', response);

  if (response.didCancel) {
    console.log('User cancelled image picker');
  }
  else if (response.error) {
    console.log('ImagePickerManager Error: ', response.error);
  }
  else if (response.customButton) {
    console.log('User tapped custom button: ', response.customButton);
  }
  else {
    // You can display the image using either data:
    const source = {uri: 'data:image/jpeg;base64,' + response.data, isStatic: true};

    // uri (on iOS)
    const source = {uri: response.uri.replace('file://', ''), isStatic: true};
    // uri (on android)
    const source = {uri: response.uri, isStatic: true};

    this.setState({
      avatarSource: source
    });
  }
});

Then later, if you want to display this image in your render() method:

<Image source={this.state.avatarSource} style={styles.uploadAvatar} />

Directly Launching the Camera or Image Library

To Launch the Camera or Image Library directly (skipping the alert dialog) you can do the following:

// Launch Camera:
ImagePickerManager.launchCamera(options, (response)  => {
  // Same code as in above section!
});

// Open Image Library:
ImagePickerManager.launchImageLibrary(options, (response)  => {
  // Same code as in above section!
});

Note

On iOS, don't assume that the absolute uri returned will persist. See #107

Options

option	iOS	Android
title	OK	OK
cancelButtonTitle	OK	OK
takePhotoButtonTitle	OK	OK
chooseFromLibraryButtonTitle	OK	OK
customButtons	OK	-
cameraType	OK	-
mediaType	OK	OK
videoQuality	'low', 'medium', or 'high'	'low' or 'high'
durationLimit	-	OK
angle	-	OK
aspectX	-	OK
aspectY	-	OK
maxWidth	OK	OK
maxHeight	OK	OK
quality	OK	OK
allowsEditing	OK	OK
noData	OK	OK
storageOptions	OK	OK