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Installation

Depending on what module you need, install one or both of the packages:

yarn add @react-native-documents/picker
yarn add @react-native-documents/viewer

Setting up​

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The document picker package requires iOS 14 or later. If you use Expo, use Expo SDK >=52 or Expo build properties to update the deploymentTarget to 14.

In regular React Native projects, use RN >= 0.76 or update the settings in Xcode.

Expo​

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These packages cannot be used in "Expo Go" because they require custom native code.

However, you can add custom native code to an Expo app through a development build. That is the officially recommended approach for building Expo apps. See the commands below to do this.

# install the package first

# Build the app locally
expo prebuild --clean
expo run:ios
expo run:android

React Native​

Install the package and then run pod install from the ios directory. Then rebuild your project with Xcode.

The packages support last 3 stable releases of RN, but very likely work with RN 0.73 and up.

If you're using the New Architecture, it's strongly recommended to use the latest stable release of RN.