[teyc]

If you already know how to do the image related task in Native Android, you could spike a test project and verify that it's performant on the smaller devices and the problem could be attributed to React Native alone. Then it's a matter of porting the high level API to JS.

Given that you believe this is a memory-related problem, perhaps it's because the image is too large to fit into the available memory, and having React Native made it worse.

[silkodyssey]

I did just that. I created a native Android project that selected an image from the image picker and displayed it in an image view. I tested it with a few images and it worked. Even the image that crashed the React Native app.

"Given that you believe this is a memory-related problem, perhaps it's because the image is too large to fit into the available memory, and having React Native made it worse. "

This is precisely what I think it is.

[tomwilson]

Seems like it can't be that hard to use that native code you wrote in your test in the react-native app though. Write the final image to disk. Load the image in an image view. Never pass the data through the JavaScript bridge.

[CodeWriter23]

Maybe this is your opportunity to create "SilkOdyssey's Badass Image Picker for RN, now with less crashy". It seems like you're partway there already. Maybe fork or PR the one you're using.