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id: basics-component-image
title: Image
layout: docs
category: Basics
permalink: docs/basics-component-image.html
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---
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Another basic React Native component is the [`Image` ](/react-native/docs/image.html#content ) component. Like `Text` , the `Image` component simply renders an image.
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> An `Image` is analogous to the `<img>` HTML tag when building websites.
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The simplest way to render an image is to provide a source file to that image via the `source` attribute.
This example displays a checkbox `Image` on the device.
```JavaScript
import React from 'react';
import { AppRegistry, Image } from 'react-native';
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const AwesomeProject = () => {
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return (
< Image source = {require('./img/check.png')} / >
);
}
// App registration and rendering
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AppRegistry.registerComponent('AwesomeProject', () => AwesomeProject);
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```