A modern React Native API for accessing the iOS Photos Framework, including iCloud photos and advanced media management.
react-native-photos-framework is a React Native library that provides a native bridge to Apple's Photos Framework, enabling iOS apps to access and manage the user's entire photo library including iCloud-synced content. It solves the limitation of React Native's built-in CameraRoll, which uses the deprecated ALAssetLibrary and cannot access iCloud photos, by offering advanced querying, real-time change tracking, and full media management capabilities.
React Native developers building iOS apps that need to integrate with the user's photo library, such as photo gallery apps, social media apps with photo uploads, or any app requiring access to iCloud-synced photos and videos.
Developers choose this library because it provides full iCloud support and a modern, promise-based API that mirrors the native Photos Framework's flexibility, unlike the deprecated ALAssetLibrary used by React Native's CameraRoll. It offers unique features like real-time change tracking, advanced media queries, and built-in AJAX upload helpers, making it a comprehensive solution for photo library integration.
A modern and comprehensive CameraRoll/iCloud-library-API for React Native 📸 📹
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Provides access to both local and iCloud-synced photos and videos, overcoming the limitation of React Native's CameraRoll which uses the deprecated ALAssetLibrary.
Allows filtering and sorting assets by type, subtype, source, and date using a flexible fetchOptions object that mirrors native Photos Framework capabilities.
Enables subscription to library updates like inserts and deletes, allowing apps to refresh UI incrementally when photos are added or modified while the app is open.
Supports creating, editing, and deleting albums and assets, including metadata updates and a built-in AJAX upload helper with progress tracking for server integration.
Only supports Apple's iOS platform due to its reliance on the Photos Framework, making it useless for cross-platform projects or Android development.
Video playback requires a specific fork of react-native-video, which may lag behind upstream updates and adds maintenance complexity for developers.
The library had breaking changes with React Native v0.40, as noted in the README, and similar issues could recur with future updates, requiring careful version management.