React Native Image URI Not Showing - ios

Question

While rendering a set of row components in ListView, my uri images seem not to be showing up at all. I have included Image in the react module. My custom component is the following:
var url = rowData.mediaGroups[0].contents[0].url;
if (url.indexOf('w=150') > -1)
{
url.replace("w=150", "w=500");
}
return <ArticlePreview
category={rowData.categories[0]}
key={sectionID}
heartText={'2.9k'}
categoryPress={this.onCategoryDetailsPress}
selected={false}
source={{ uri: url }}
text={rowData.title.toLowerCase().replace(' ','')}
onPress={this.onArticleDetailsPress} />
The component has multiple properties and is used throughout my app (and works there with link images). But for some reason the component just stopped working in the app for uri images. Not sure what to do. Here is the code for the component itself:
//component for article preview touchable image
/* will require the following
- rss feed and api
- user's keyword interests from parse In home.js
- parse db needs to be augmented to include what they heart
- parse db needs to be augmented to include what they press on (like google news)
*/
var React = require('react-native');
var {
View,
StyleSheet,
Text,
Image,
TouchableHighlight,
} = React;
//dimensions
var Dimensions = require('Dimensions');
var window = Dimensions.get('window');
var ImageButton = require('../../common/imageButton');
var KeywordBox = require('../../authentication/onboarding/keyword-box');
//additional libraries
module.exports = React.createClass({
//onPress function that triggers when button pressed
//this.props.text is property that can be dynamically filled within button
/* following props:
- source={this.props.source}
- onPress={this.props.onPress}
- {this.props.text}
- {this.props.heartText}
- key={this.props.key}
- text={this.props.category}
- this.props.selected
*/
render: function() {
return (
<TouchableHighlight
underlayColor={'transparent'}
onPress={this.props.onPress} >
<Image source={this.props.source} style={[styles.articlePreview, this.border('red')]}>
<View style={[styles.container, this.border('organge')]}>
<View style={[styles.header, this.border('blue')]}>
<Text style={[styles.previewText]}>{this.props.text}</Text>
</View>
<View style={[styles.footer, this.border('white')]}>
<View style={[styles.heartRow, this.border('black')]}>
<ImageButton
style={[styles.heartBtn, , this.border('red')]}
resizeMode={'contain'}
onPress={this.onHeartPress}
source={require('../../img/heart_btn.png')} />
<Text style={[styles.heartText]}>{this.props.heartText} favorites</Text>
</View>
<KeywordBox
style={[styles.category, this.border('blue')]}
key={this.props.key}
text={this.props.category}
onPress={this.props.categoryPress}
selected={this.props.selected} />
</View>
</View>
</Image>
</TouchableHighlight>
);
},
onHeartPress: function() {
//will move this function to a general module
},
border: function(color) {
return {
//borderColor: color,
//borderWidth: 4,
}
},
});
var styles = StyleSheet.create({
heartText: {
color: 'white',
fontSize: 12,
fontWeight: 'bold',
alignSelf: 'center',
marginLeft: 5,
},
heartRow: {
flexDirection: 'row',
justifyContent: 'space-around',
alignSelf: 'center',
justifyContent: 'center',
},
heartBtn: {
height: (92/97)*(window.width/13),
width: window.width/13,
alignSelf:'center',
},
category: {
fontFamily: 'Bebas Neue',
fontSize: 10,
fontWeight: 'bold'
},
header: {
flex: 3,
alignItems: 'center',
justifyContent: 'space-around',
marginTop: window.height/30,
},
footer: {
flex: 1,
flexDirection: 'row',
justifyContent: 'space-between',
alignItems: 'center',
margin: window.height/50,
},
container: {
flex: 1,
backgroundColor: 'black',
opacity: 0.6,
},
articlePreview: {
flex: 1,
height: window.height/3.2,
width: window.width,
flexDirection: 'column'
},
previewText: {
fontFamily: 'Bebas Neue',
fontSize: 23,
color: 'white',
alignSelf: 'center',
textAlign: 'center',
margin: 5,
position: 'absolute',
top: 0,
right: 0,
bottom: 0,
left: 0
},
});
The UI currently looks like this with not images (has black background):

Answer 1

Checked my rss feeds - some were unreliable resulting in messing with the way the images were being shown