save files in custom directory

[SychevSP]

In my application I need to save photos and videos to different directories. I patched react-native-camera to make it possible to specify custom paths to folders. One can construct path to directory with a library such as RN-Fetch-Blob and pass it as an option to takePictureAsync or recordAsync. If the change seems beneficial I am happy to share it with the community.

[MateusAndrade]

This looks really good! Im going to give a try on this with Android. If someone can handle the test on IOS would be great, since i cant test this on the weekend.

[sibelius]

can't you use this https://github.com/itinance/react-native-fs?

[SychevSP]

If you want to save photos/ videos to a custom directory instead of cacheDir/Camera you can take the path returned by takePictureAsync or recordAsync and then feed this path to another library to move the file.
It can be https://github.com/itinance/react-native-fs or https://github.com/joltup/rn-fetch-blob or any other library that can move files. But it is a two step solution: first take picture, then move it

In my app I wanted to do it in one step. So made this little tweak to react-native-camera.

[sibelius]

I think we can land this

let's add to new docs as well

[MateusAndrade]

I think we can land this

let's add to new docs as well

Would be nice apply this with our new docs using docusaurus. We can even modify READM.MD showing this.

[zackify]

Does this library currently store data in the documents folder of the app? If not, how would I use this PR to save photos there https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/FileSystemOverview/FileSystemOverview.html

[sibelius]

@zackify could you test if this PR solve your use case?

[zackify]

What I’m trying to say is that I don’t understand where the temporary photos are currently stored, or if this PR will let me put them in a persistent place.

Basically I need to store photos in my app, but not to the camera roll. But I want them to stay on the phone until the app is deleted

[fabOnReact]

@zackify the photos are stored in cache, but as explained above you can use other libraries to save the file to a specific location.

@SychevSP are you still working on this? Or should I fork it and make the required changes?

[SychevSP]

I have a more recent version of this feature which I forked in December. I currently use in one of my projects https://github.com/SychevSP/react-native-camera/commits/save-in-dir