Taking a picture with storageOptions.path has no effect

I am trying to take a picture with the camera providing storageOptions like this:

        const options = {
            cameraType: 'back',
            mediaType: 'photo',
            storageOptions: {
                cameraRoll: false, // Don't save photos to the camera roll
                path: "/data/data/com.testapp/itemfiles"
                skipBackup: true, // No need to backup to iClould
            },
        };

        ImagePicker.launchCamera(options, (response) => {
            if (response.didCancel) {
                console.log('User cancelled image picker');
            }
            else if (response.error) {
                console.log('ImagePicker Error: ', response.error);
            }
            else if (response.customButton) {
                console.log('User tapped custom button: ', response.customButton);
            }
            else {
                let source = {uri: response.uri};
            }
        });

Pretty standard stuff, I suppose. The problem I’m having is that the options don’t seem to have any effect The path doesn’t change and the file is saved in the camera roll instead. I have confirmed that the path does exist.

The URI in the response looks like this:

uri: ‘content://com.reportit.provider/app_images/Pictures/image-a3fbe51e-94d8-4564-855c-464ed0d8f0ff.jpg’,

The logs mention this as well:

W/unknown:InspectorPackagerConnection: Couldn’t connect to packager, will silently retry I/TAG: Finished scanning /storage/emulated/0/Pictures/image-5e89bc4d-0f11-4e83-bf37-5283ae39f425.jpg

What am I doing wrong? How can I save pictures to the path I specified?

Additional Information

• React Native version: 0.48.3
• Platform: Android (5.0.2 device and 7.0 emulator)
• Development Operating System: MacOS
• Dev tools: Android Studio, PhpStorm

[Selman555]

I’ve made a local change to MediaUtils.java:49:

        final File path = ReadableMapUtils.hasAndNotNullReadableMap(options, "storageOptions")
            && ReadableMapUtils.hasAndNotEmptyString(options.getMap("storageOptions"), "path")
            ? new File(reactContext.getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOCUMENTS), options.getMap("storageOptions").getString("path"))
            : (!forceLocal ? Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES)
                          : reactContext.getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES));

        // ORIGINAL CODE
        //final File path = ReadableMapUtils.hasAndNotNullReadableMap(options, "storageOptions") && !forceLocal
        //        ? Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES)
        //        : reactContext.getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES);

Now I can pass a folder like this:

            storageOptions: {
                cameraRoll: false,
                path: 'itemfiles',
                skipBackup: true, // No need to backup to iCloud
            },

And the path in the response is

“/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.app/files/Documents/itemfiles/image-ee46fd5a-e669-4038-a14a-a08df67e0345.jpg”

But cameraRoll: false is still ignored…

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