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@camnicklaus

what is the default local image resource behavior of my App using expo? if I have an component with an icon.png (being required) as the source am I making network requests every time the component loads?

is there no “Expo” way to cache local resources on the device itself?

Seems like maybe this should be presented right up front as a caveat for using expo?

• the default behavior is indeed to load it over the network
• you cache resources using the function that you shared above. to bundle it in standalone app, this new assetBundlePatterns field will be useful. we will continue to explore how to make it easier to cache in the client as well, perhaps leveraging this field to automatically cache assets on load, or maybe something else.
• i’m not sure how much more clear we can make the caveat – it’s the top point in the “Why not Expo?” doc: https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/introduction/why-not-expo.html