Handling Photos

Introduction to Handling Photos

At this point it shouldn't be a surprise that Expo provides a nice JavaScript abstraction over the native iOS and Android approaches to accessing photos from the device's photo gallery. The name of this property is ImagePicker and it does exactly what you would expect: "Provides access to the system's UI for selecting images from the phone's photo library or taking a photo with the camera."

We won't be adding any of this functionality to the UdaciFitness app we're building, but in the next video we will walk through how to use ImagePicker just in case you'll need it for a future project.

Photos Fun

SOLUTION:

`ImagePicker.launchImageLibraryAsync`

Summary

In this section, you learned about Expo's ImagePicker component to grab images from the phone's photo gallery. For more information, you can read the official documentation.