react-native-photo-observer

What it does

This module has a listener which is triggered every time when amount of photos in a library has been changed. It implements photoLibraryDidChangeevent fromPHPhotoLibraryChangeObserver.

(iOS only)

Installation

npm i @flekflekerov/react-native-photo-observer@latest

Usage

import {PhotosChangeObserverModule, RNPhotoObserver} from '@flekflekerov/react-native-photo-observer';

componentDidMount(): void {
  PhotosChangeObserverModule.register();
  RNPhotoObserver.addListener('onPhotosChanged', () => {
    // Do whatever you need when amount of photos were changed
  });
}

componentWillUnmount(): void {
  PhotosChangeObserverModule.unregister();
  RNPhotoObserver.removeAllListeners('onPhotosChanged');
}