React Native - Is this possible to access the camera by using the CameraRoll Api?

Question

I am working on my app project which also deals with the camera, photos & videos. I want to use the standard APIs not third party developers APIs, by standard APIs i mean those APIs which are documented on the react native official website .

I found CameraRoll API in the documentation and my question is whether it is possible to achieve the following using this API?

• Access Photos & Videos
• Select Photos & Videos
• Open camera and take Photos & Record Videos

I am sure about the first two that we can achieve, but doubtful about the third. Can anyone tell that can we achieve the third by using CameraRoll API?

Answer 1

• Yes
• No
• No

The documentation clearly says what the API can and can't do. getPhoto() will only return a promise containing an array with image information, no actual images. You'd have to implement a custom viewer. And it can't access the camera, only stored files.

If that's what you want to do react-native-image-picker is your best friend.