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The first module I tried was react-native-image-picker and yes it returns an object with base64 encoded data. What I do with this data is first, resize the image then display the resized image in an ImageView then upload the resized image to Firebase Storage.

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You definitely will want to write images to file, then pass the file path over the bridge. That's an easy solution.

I've been using React Native cross platform for over a year, and it has a ridiculous number of issues, but they're trade offs. There are benefits that come with it. React Native is just another tool, evaluate it as you would any other framework.

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