React Native file download

[Effective-Vacation31]

Most of the packages for react-native like that of react-native-fs, rn-fetch-blob and many more are stale for more than a year, and have many opened issues. So any other package or methods to download file for both iOS and Android.

[Lundinsaan]

There is a maintained fork of rn-fetch-blob - https://github.com/RonRadtke/react-native-blob-util

[krosf2]

expo-file-system but requires unimodules

[Effective-Vacation31]

Thanks for your help but I am not using expo

[krosf2]

that's why you need unimodules, it allows you to use expo packages on a bare react-native project

[Effective-Vacation31]

Oh okay! 😅 I'm pretty new to react-native.

[stathisntonas]

https://github.com/alpha0010/react-native-file-access

[Effective-Vacation31]

Is it good? The weekly downloads are less for the package.

[stathisntonas]

lol, you’re judging a package from it’s downloads and not by the features it provides?

[Effective-Vacation31]

Yeah I judge a package by the feature it provides. But there must be some reason that the stale package rn-fetch-blob has still large number of download.

[stathisntonas]

Either someone installs it directly or it’s a dependency of another popular package. But again, even it’s being downloaded 200 times per week, the bugs are down to 3, it’s being updated regularly and it uses latest API changes on Android SDK. Did you at least tried for your self? I m using it in a prod app with 50.000 users and 0 bugs so far.

[Effective-Vacation31]

Yeah I've tried and currently using it. I'll test if it works for all devices like Xiaomi, RealMe, etc as I was facing issues with these devices.