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)
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import { RNCamera, FaceDetector } from 'react-native-camera';
We recommend using the releases from npm, however if you need some features that are not published on npm yet you can install react-native-camera from git.
yarn: yarn add react-native-camera@git+https://git@github.com/react-native-community/react-native-camera.git
npm: npm install --save react-native-camera@git+https://git@github.com/react-native-community/react-native-camera.git
- Pull Requests are welcome, if you open a pull request we will do our best to get to it in a timely manner
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To use the camera,
- 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" />
- 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.