React Native - Image Require Module using Dynamic Names

Question

I\'m currently building a test app using React Native. The Image module, thus far has been working fine.

For example, if I had an image named avatar, th

Answer 1

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Image } from 'react-native';

class Images extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
           images: {
                './assets/RetailerLogo/1.jpg': require('../../../assets/RetailerLogo/1.jpg'),
                './assets/RetailerLogo/2.jpg': require('../../../assets/RetailerLogo/2.jpg'),
                './assets/RetailerLogo/3.jpg': require('../../../assets/RetailerLogo/3.jpg')
            }
    }
  }

  render() {
    const {  images } = this.state 
    return (
      <View>
        <Image
                            resizeMode="contain"
                            source={ images['assets/RetailerLogo/1.jpg'] }
                            style={styles.itemImg}
                        />
     </View>
  )}
}

Answer 2

RELEVANT IF YOU HAVE KNOWN IMAGES (URLS):

The way I hacked my way through this problem:

I created a file with an object that stored the image and the name of the image:

const images = {
  dog: {
    imgName: 'Dog', 
    uri: require('path/to/local/image')
  },
  cat: {
    imgName: 'Cat on a Boat', 
    uri: require('path/to/local/image')
  }
}

export { images };

Then I imported the object into the component where I want to use it and just do my conditional rendering like so:

import { images } from 'relative/path';

if (cond === 'cat') {
  let imgSource = images.cat.uri;
}

<Image source={imgSource} />

I know it is not the most efficient way but it is definitely a workaround.

Hope it helps!

Answer 3

First, create a file with image required - React native images must be loaded this way.

assets/index.js

export const friendsandfoe = require('./friends-and-foe.png'); 
export const lifeanddeath = require('./life-and-death.png'); 
export const homeandgarden = require('./home-and-garden.png');

Now import all your assets

App.js

import * as All  from '../../assets';

You can now use your image as an interpolated value where imageValue (coming in from backend) is the same as named local file ie: 'homeandgarden':

<Image style={styles.image} source={All[`${imageValue}`]}></Image>

Answer 4

This is covered in the documentation under the section "Static Resources":

The only allowed way to refer to an image in the bundle is to literally write require('image!name-of-the-asset') in the source.

// GOOD
<Image source={require('image!my-icon')} />

// BAD
var icon = this.props.active ? 'my-icon-active' : 'my-icon-inactive';
<Image source={require('image!' + icon)} />

// GOOD
var icon = this.props.active ? require('image!my-icon-active') : require('image!my-icon-inactive');
<Image source={icon} />

However you also need to remember to add your images to an xcassets bundle in your app in Xcode, though it seems from your comment you've done that already.

http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/image.html#adding-static-resources-to-your-app-using-images-xcassets

Answer 5

This worked for me :

I made a custom image component which takes in a boolean to check if the image is from web or is being passed from a local folder.

// In index.ios.js after importing the component
<CustomImage fromWeb={false} imageName={require('./images/logo.png')}/>

// In CustomImage.js which is my image component
<Image style={styles.image} source={this.props.imageName} />

If you see the code, instead of using one of these:

// NOTE: Neither of these will work
source={require('../images/'+imageName)} 
var imageName = require('../images/'+imageName)

I'm just sending the entire require('./images/logo.png') as a prop. It works!

Answer 6

As the React Native Documentation says, all your images sources needs to be loaded before compiling your bundle

So another way you can use dynamic images it's using a switch statement. Let's say you want to display a different avatar for a different character, you can do something like this:

class App extends Component {
  state = { avatar: "" }

  get avatarImage() {
    switch (this.state.avatar) {
      case "spiderman":
        return require('./spiderman.png');
      case "batman":
        return require('./batman.png');
      case "hulk":
        return require('./hulk.png');
      default:
        return require('./no-image.png');
    }
  }

  render() {
    return <Image source={this.avatarImage} />
  }
}

Check the snack: https://snack.expo.io/@abranhe/dynamic-images

Also, remember if your image it's online you don't have any problems, you can do:

let superhero = "spiderman";

<Image source={{ uri: `https://some-website.online/${superhero}.png` }} />