[Discussion] Add the ability to handle images in Onyx

[mallenexpensify]

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Problem

Right now, we have no way of saving images offline. We can't use Onyx as it has storage limitations on web with a 5MB limit. There's been a lot of discussion on how to handle this in this issue and in this slack thread.

Why is this important?

This is important to be able to handle offline functionality of images

Solution

Create an offline storage solution for Onyx so that even when the application is offline and closed, the attached images will persist and continue to upload

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
https://github.com/Expensify/Expensify/issues/169197
cc @thienlnam

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[parasharrajat]

Create a JNI-based AsyncStorage for Onyx that works across all platforms

Sorry but this looks like a huge task to do. Maybe we did not mean to do so. Can anybody confirm what exactly is need to be built? I expect that we need to expand AsyncStorage in a wrapper so that it supports a method like AsyncStorage.setImages() or AsyncStorage.removeImages(). Please, this looks daunting to me.

Moreover, a little bit about our plan to approach this which is finalized as a way to go. e.g.
IndexedDb on Web. FileSystem in native devices.

[thienlnam]

@parasharrajat Yup this is a huge task, but basically is going to be summed up with what needs to happen from this slack tread happening now. I updated the solution a bit but I imagine that it will keep updating until we figure out what the most viable solution for this will be

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