Image is not showing in the iOS device after getting downloaded through rn-fetch-blob ( React native fetch blob)

Question

I am trying to download a small image using this particular code snippet :

Plug in Used : "rn-fetch-blob": "^0.10.14"

 RNFetchBlob.
config({
  fileCache: true,
 
}).
fetch('GET', url, {      //getting image URL from server
  // some headers ..
})
  .then((response) => {
    const base64Str = response.data;
    RNFetchBlob.fs
          .writeFile(imageLocation, base64Str, 'base64')
          .then(() => {
 
              console.log("Download successful");
           
          }).catch((err) => {
            console.log('Failed to save file. ', err);
          });

variable imageLocation points to ${RNFetchBlob.fs.dirs.DocumentDir}/${filename}.

Also tried with ${RNFetchBlob.fs.dirs.CacheDir}/${filename}.

Download is successful but no image is shown in device photos.

Answer 1

On iOS both documents and cache directory are contained within the application's own directory. So you are not storing the image in the device photos.

To download it to the device photos you need to use CameraRoll from react-native https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/cameraroll

import { CameraRoll } from 'react-native';

This tutorial shows you how to use CameraRoll

https://medium.com/react-native-training/mastering-the-camera-roll-in-react-native-13b3b1963a2d

However the crux of it is you can use something like this to download images to the camera roll

saveToCameraRoll = (image) => {
  if (Platform.OS === 'android') {
    RNFetchBlob
      .config({
        fileCache : true,
        appendExt : 'jpg'
      })
      .fetch('GET', image.urls.small)
      .then((res) => {
        CameraRoll.saveToCameraRoll(res.path())
          .then(Alert.alert('Success', 'Photo added to camera roll!'))
          .catch(err => console.log('err:', err))
      })
  } else {
      CameraRoll.saveToCameraRoll(image.urls.small)
        .then(Alert.alert('Success', 'Photo added to camera roll!'))
  }
}

Answer 2

What you wanted to do is to write base64 encoded image to a file but what you're writing is the image url only.