Is it possible to share multiple images at once?

I’ve been using this module to share images, one at a time. I’m using RNFS.readFile to get base64 data of the image, and setting the appropriate MIME type manually. It’s working fine.

But, I would like to share multiple images with a single Share.open call. Is this possible?

Thanks!

[eomine]

@Kampeone I had to use RNFS (react-native-fs) and: 1- Download the image file to the device; 2- Read the downloaded file; 3- Pass the file contents as a base64 string to react-native-share.

import RNFS from 'react-native-fs';
import Share from 'react-native-share';

share(file, fileName) {
  const localFile = `${RNFS.DocumentDirectoryPath}/${fileName}`;
  const options = {
    fromUrl: file,
    toFile: localFile,
  };
  RNFS.downloadFile(options).promise
    .then(() => this.share1(localFile))
    .catch(this.onError);
}
share1(localFile) {
  RNFS.readFile(localFile, 'base64')
    .then(base64 => {
      const mimeType = Utils.getMimeType(localFile);
      Share.open({
        type: mimeType,
        url: `data:${mimeType};base64,${base64}`,
      });
    });
}

Images could be JPG or PNG, so I had a Utils.getMimeType method to get the correct MIME type. It just read the file extension and returned the proper MIME type string (image/jpeg or image/png) accordingly.

[mariusgab]

@eomine Thanks, it worked!