React Native Camera

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Follow our docs here https://react-native-camera.github.io/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

1import { RNCamera, FaceDetector } from 'react-native-camera';

How to use master branch?

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

Contributing

• Pull Requests are welcome, if you open a pull request we will do our best to get to it in a timely manner
• Pull Request Reviews are even more welcome! we need help testing, reviewing, and updating open PRs
• If you are interested in contributing more actively, please contact me (same username on Twitter, Facebook, etc.) Thanks!
• We are now on Open Collective! Contributions are appreciated and will be used to fund core contributors. more details
• If you want to help us coding, join Expo slack https://slack.expo.io/, so we can chat over there. (#react-native-camera)

Permissions

To use the camera,

1. On Android you must ask for camera permission:

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

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

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

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

1...
2<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>
3<string>Your own description of the purpose</string>
4...
5	

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

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

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