react-native-image-picker: TypeError: Cannot read property 'launchImageLibrary' of undefined [🐛]

Description

Getting error TypeError: Cannot read property 'launchImageLibrary' of undefined calling launchImageLibrary() on versions 5.3.0, 5.2.0 and 5.1.0. Downgrading to version 5.0.0 and 4.10.x I’m getting an error on build (which probably has already been addressed). It works on version 4.8.5.

How to repeat issue

Installed the library npm install react-native-image-picker

Tried to import it in different ways

import {launchImageLibrary} from 'react-native-image-picker';
import * as ImagePicker from 'react-native-image-picker';
var ImagePicker = require('react-native-image-picker');

Called the function directly or with async

const handleImagePicker = () => {
  ImagePicker.launchImageLibrary(
      {includeBase64: true},
      (res) => console.log(res)
    );
  }

const handleImagePicker = async () => {
    const res = await ImagePicker.launchImageLibrary(
      {includeBase64: true},
      (res) => console.log(res)
    );
    console.log(res);
  }

Additional Information

Image Picker version: 5.3.0
React Native version: 0.64.4
Platform: Android
Development Operating System: Windows
Dev tools: Android SDK 30

About this issue

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Created a year ago
Reactions: 7
Comments: 26

Most upvoted comments

import { launchCamera, launchImageLibrary } from ‘react-native-image-picker’

import * as ImagePicker from ‘react-native-image-picker’

+30

orzhtml on Mar 28, 2023

Same problem here. The issue is from this code in node_modules/react-native-image-picker/src/platforms/native.ts

const nativeImagePicler = isTurboModuleEnabled ?
  require("./NativeImagePicker").default :
  NativeModules.ImagePicker;

–> NativeModules.ImagePicker returns null

“react-native-image-picker”: “5.6.1”, “react”: “16.13.1”, “react-native”: “0.64.4”,

My temporary solution after updating to Android SDK 33 is to upgrade react-native-image-picker to version 5.0.0 and use react-native-permissions package to handle READ_MEDIA_IMAGES permission. This works for me.

maya-salcedo on Aug 30, 2023

Upgrading targetSDKVersion to 33.

import { launchImageLibrary } from ‘react-native-image-picker’;

This fixed for me.

nirmalswmnthn on Apr 13, 2023

@totoledao if anything, 5.0.2 should work fine on your version of RN. The new arch was introduced in 5.1.0, which may (I don’t think it does) have a dependency on a newer version of RN.

Johan-dutoit on Mar 23, 2023

This solution is working for me

Updated following packages: “react-native”: “0.72.4”, (https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/ it will help you with updating RN) “react-native-image-picker”: “7.0.0”,
You might facing with this issue (IOS) - */node_modules/react-native-image-picker/ios/ImagePickerManager.h:1:9 Could not build module 'React' This solution helped me with issue above - https://github.com/react-native-image-picker/react-native-image-picker/issues/2158#issuecomment-1694787594

AlekseyP18 on Sep 21, 2023

I am facing with the similar to this problem I’m getting both “Cannot read property ‘launchImageLibrary’ of null” and “Cannot read property ‘launchCamera’ of null”

“react-native-image-picker”: “5.6.1”, “react-native”: “0.72.4”,

The error is catching in the file - node_modules/react-native-image-picker/src/platforms/native.ts

AlekseyP18 on Aug 29, 2023

@totoledao if anything, 5.0.2 should work fine on your version of RN. The new arch was introduced in 5.1.0, which may (I don’t think it does) have a dependency on a newer version of RN.

after switch to targetSdkVersion = 33 we had to bump the version in order to build. Started getting error Cannot read property 'launchImageLibrary' of undefined . version 5.0.2 works for us (we are using a older version of RN)

drewlin on Aug 7, 2023

Same issue here, tried pod install and all of the mentioned import methods.

“react-native-image-picker”: “^5.4.0”, “react”: “18.2.0”, “react-native”: “0.71.6”, platform: ios

walpolsh on May 30, 2023

@Johan-dutoit I looked at the example app & can’t really tell what’s different or wrong in our app that it doesn’t work, any hints or things that one should look for?

@lufke I am seeing this on iOS & have tried rebuilding several times.

priyeshshah11 on Mar 24, 2023

I’d suggest looking at the example app @priyeshshah11. That is running RN0.71.2 and the latest version of the picker without this issue.

Johan-dutoit on Mar 23, 2023