I am designing an application where users can upload images of their recipes and I have used 'expo-image-picker' library. Is there a way to push my image url to Firebase such that other users are able to see the image as well?

I’m using expo image picker now and the image taken from the device camera has a file path stored in the local device memory. However, I realise that only the user who uploaded that image would be able to see it since it is from his device. I read online that storing the image url as base64 allows for the sharing of such images.

Do I have to upload the image URL to Firebase as base64 format and then when I fetch it, I convert it from base64 format to a readable url format that the in built Image component from react-native is able to read?