// Function form the react-native-image-picker library ImagePicker.showImagePicker({ title: 'Select Image' }, (response) => { // format the image data const image = { uri: response.uri, type: 'image/jpeg', name: 'myImage' + '-' + Date.now() + '.jpg' } // Instantiate a FormData() object const imgBody = new FormData(); // append the image to the object with the title 'image' body.append('image', image); const url = `http://your-api.com/image-upload`; // Perform the request. Note the content type - very important fetch(url, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data', }, body: imgBody }).then(res => res.json()).then(results => { // Just me assigning the image url to be seen in the view const source = { uri: res.imageUrl, isStatic: true }; const images = this.state.images; images[index] = source; this.setState({ images }); }).catch(error => { console.error(error); }); });