React Native Camera

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The comprehensive camera module for React Native.

Supports:

• photographs.
• videos
• face detection (Android & iOS only)
• barcode scanning
• text recognition (optional installation for iOS using CocoaPods)

Example import

import { RNCamera, FaceDetector } from 'react-native-camera';

Permissions

To use the camera,

1. On Android you must ask for camera permission:

  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />

To enable video recording feature you have to add the following code to the AndroidManifest.xml:

  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

2. On iOS, you must update Info.plist with a usage description for camera

...
<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>
<string>Your own description of the purpose</string>
...
	

For more information on installation, please refer to installation requirements.

For general introduction, please take a look into this RNCamera.