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.
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"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.