I want to use CameraRoll in my react native application. I've tryed to install it doing :
npm install RCTCameraRoll --save
but i get :
npm ERR! 404
what is the proper way to do it ?
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Having just spent two hours on this, it's apparently still confusing nine months after your question.
The official documentation (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/cameraroll.html) points to the linking page which suggests that there's a package to install (which it points out must be referred to in package.json for automatic linking).
RCTCameraRoll is already included in your react-native npm installation (node_modules/react-native/Libraries/CameraRoll). So no need to npm it.
However it's not linked in your Xcode project, so you have to follow the instructions in https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/linking-libraries-ios.html for manual linking.
And what about Android? That's not mentioned in the manual linking instructions. No linking seems to be required. import {CameraRoll} from react-native is all that's necessary.
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vishal dharankar
Wow so much of inconsistency , this is one of the reasons not to consider RN for serious and big projects .
vishal dharankar
and in latest modules I can see no Xcode project anyways, so still no idea how to link it.
Isaac
@vishaldharankar: railsware.com/blog/2017/10/09/… this is a list of all the successful projects by using RN. Are you sure about not to consider RN for serious and big projects?
vishal dharankar
@Isaac lets talk about regular tom , not insta , tesla etc. its hard to find info on certain topics like the above one, was it native I would have done dozens of time, by the time.
dubucha
I couldn't find CameraRoll in the Libraries folder, so I found it in the react-native-community github. Please refer to instructions in github.com/react-native-community/react-native-cameraroll