Reading a text file stored in mobile phone storage using React-Native

Question

I want to read the content of a text file stored inside the downloads folder in an Android phone. How can I do this using React-Native?

Answer 1

You can use react-native-fs:

Sample usage:

...
// typescript style
import * as RNFS from 'react-native-fs';
...

// readFile(filepath: string, encoding?: string)
RNFS.readFile(filePath, 'ascii').then(res => {
    ...
})
.catch(err => {
    ...
    console.log(err.message, err.code);
    ...
});
...