title: React Native iOS read image from apps Documents folder
body: <p>I have to download images to my iOS apps local file system and read them back.</p>
  
  <p>On my simulator I can see file system of my app with directories</p>
  
  <pre><code>/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/[UUID]/data/Containers/Data/Application/[UUID]/
  
  /Documents
  /Library
  /tmp
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To try out I copied foo.png to /Documents folder and then tried</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Image source={{uri: "file://Documents/foo.png"}} style={{width:100, height:100}}/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This does not work, any idea whats a way to do this.</p>