Download ZIP file in react-native - ios

Question

I'm writing an app using react-native and I will build it for both android and iOS.
Anyway, I have been trying to download a ZIP-file using react-native but I can't get it to work. After I have downloaded the file my plan is to unzip it and then store it using AsyncStorage.
But I keep getting the error below:
[RCTNetworking.m:330] Received data was not a string, or was not a recognised encoding.
I have tried various settings for my request but I guess I am simply missing something, the code currently looks like:
fetch('somewhere.path/file.zip', {
method: 'GET',
headers: {
'Accept-Encoding': 'application/zip'
},
})
.then((response) => {
console.log("Success");
})
.catch((error) => {
console.log("Error");
}).done();
Success gets printed but the response data does not contain the zip files data.
If it helps I am debugging using XCode and the simulator.
If anybody has any ideas please help me out! :)
Thanks in advance,
Yon

Answer 1

I also write an app to download some zip files and unzip it. And for download function, I using a plugin called react-native-fetch-blob. Code example:
import RNFetchBlob from 'react-native-fetch-blob';
...
RNFetchBlob.config({
fileCache : true,
path: path + '/file.zip'})
.fetch('GET','http://domain/file.zip')
.progress((received, total) => {console.log('progress', received / total)})
.then((res) => {// the temp file path
console.log('The file saved to ', res.path());
});
...
Thanks,