🐞 Issue: Android 12 (Samsung) — First-launch image pick/upload shows nothing (react-native-image-crop-picker)

[sagnik2001]

Summary
On Samsung devices running Android 12 (One UI 4.x), the first time the app launches and the user selects photos via react-native-image-crop-picker, the UI shows no selected images and nothing uploads. Retrying (or after backgrounding/foregrounding the app) often works.

Steps to Reproduce

Clean install app (clear storage or fresh install).

Launch app (first run).

Go to a screen that triggers ImagePicker.openPicker({ mediaType: 'photo', multiple: true }).

Select one or more images and confirm.

Observe: no preview/attachments; upload list is empty.

Expected
Selected images are returned from the picker and shown immediately; upload begins.

Actual
Picker closes, no images appear; no JS error surfaced. Sometimes a second attempt works.

Environment

Devices: Samsung Galaxy S21/S22/A-series (Android 12).

Works on: Pixel (Android 12), emulator — cannot reproduce.

Library: react-native-image-crop-picker (version: 0.42.0)

RN: 0.73.8

Compile/Target SDK: 34

Permissions: READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, CAMERA (granted on first run)