Can't load network images in gl-react-expo package.

feature request

Ability to load network images in gl-react-expo package.

The ExponentTextureLoader only supports loading using a RN module number. It doesn’t support other image sources such as remote or local/cached files using a format similar to { uri: 'https://...' } or { uri: 'file:///...' }

I’m guessing that you’ve already run into this issue since your cookbook-rn examples that use network images such as transitions use static images in the cookbook-expo version.

Is there a possible workaround for this? I’ve considered creating my own TextureLoader that loads an ImageSource. It would be exactly the same as the ExponentTextureLoader except this line. That logic would change to use Expo.Asset.fromModule(...) if the ImageSource is a number (the same as it already does) or construct an Expo.Asset manually if it is a network image. I would then use TextureLoaders to remove the ExponentTextureLoader and add my own. I haven’t tried this yet but if it works and you are okay with this solution, I’ll make a PR for the ExponentTextureLoader

library version

gl-react@3.0.0-alpha.6 gl-react-expo@3.0.0-alpha.6

[gre]

I’ve released a 3.1.0 that supports remote images by downloading them to a local asset. this is a temporary solution as EXGLView implementation will soon provide a nicer way to handle that 😃

[yedeba]

Thank you. something new?, I can not load yet uri local value (file://data/data…) from camera. IOS work but not in android. 😦