I am quite new to React Native and Expo, so excuse my ignorance. I am building an app with Expo (RN: 0.74.1, Expo: 51.0.8) that requires showing an image from an external URL and being able to crop it. I already implemented a version where I use the ImagePicker, but this requires that I have to save the image to the user’s pictures and then ask them to select it from there. I am looking for a way to crop the image directly without having to save the file and pop the picker.

I was looking at https://github.com/st0ffern/react-native-image-cropper, but I am concerned that the plugin is quite old (the last version is from 2017). I could not find anything else suitable. I did find a few React components, but I am not sure if I can use those in React Native.

I was also looking for a way to pop the Image Picker with an image already selected, but I could not find anything in the docs that allows me to do that.

Any suggestions on how to proceed?