React Native not loading image from sdcard in android

Question

I am trying to load image from external sdcard after I take photo from camera in React native image component as following, but it is not rendering in android. I even check

Answer 1

DSquare is right, unless you're running IOS. In that case 'file://' doesn't work.

The second problem is that this the path /storage/emulated/0 does not exist on IOS either.

You can make your life easier by using react-native-fs

import RNFS from "react-native-fs";
...
renderPhoto() {
    return 
}

RNFS.PicturesDirectoryPath translates to /storage/emulated/0/Pictures on Android.

No more headaches, no more wondering what path is which on which device/platform.