React Native Camera [DriveTribe fork]

The comprehensive camera module for React Native. Including photographs, videos. Same as https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-camera but without the barcode & face detection.

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

How to use master branch?

Inside your package.json, use this "react-native-camera": "git+https://git@github.com/react-native-community/react-native-camera" instead of "react-native-camera": "^1.0.0".

Permissions

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" />

Migrating from RCTCamera to RNCamera

See this doc

RNCamera Docs

RNCamera

Docs old RCTCamera

RCTCamera

Getting started

Requirements

1. JDK >= 1.7 (if you run on 1.6 you will get an error on "_cameras = new HashMap<>();")
2. With iOS 10 and higher you need to add the "Privacy - Camera Usage Description" key to the Info.plist of your project. This should be found in 'your_project/ios/your_project/Info.plist'. Add the following code:

<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>
<string>Your message to user when the camera is accessed for the first time</string>

<!-- Include this only if you are planning to use the camera roll -->
<key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key>
<string>Your message to user when the photo library is accessed for the first time</string>

<!-- Include this only if you are planning to use the microphone for video recording -->
<key>NSMicrophoneUsageDescription</key>
<string>Your message to user when the microphone is accessed for the first time</string>

3. On Android, you require buildToolsVersion of 25.0.2+. This should easily and automatically be downloaded by Android Studio's SDK Manager.

4. On iOS 11 and later you need to add NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription key to the Info.plist. This key lets you describe the reason your app seeks write-only access to the user’s photo library. Info.plist can be found in 'your_project/ios/your_project/Info.plist'. Add the following code:

<!-- Include this only if you are planning to use the camera roll -->
<key>NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription</key>
<string>Your message to user when the photo library is accessed for the first time</string>

Mostly automatic install with react-native

1. npm install react-native-camera --save
2. react-native link react-native-camera

Mostly automatic install with CocoaPods

1. npm install react-native-camera --save
2. Add the plugin dependency to your Podfile, pointing at the path where NPM installed it:

pod 'react-native-camera', path: '../node_modules/react-native-camera'

3. Run pod install

Manual install

iOS

1. npm install react-native-camera --save
2. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
3. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-camera and add RNCamera.xcodeproj
4. Expand the RNCamera.xcodeproj ➜ Products folder
5. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNCamera.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
6. Click RNCamera.xcodeproj in the project navigator and go the Build Settings tab. Make sure 'All' is toggled on (instead of 'Basic'). In the Search Paths section, look for Header Search Paths and make sure it contains both $(SRCROOT)/../../react-native/React and $(SRCROOT)/../../../React - mark both as recursive.

Usage

RNCamera

Take a look into this documentation.

RCTCamera

Since 1.0.0, RCTCamera is deprecated, but if you want to use it, you can see its documentation.

Open Collective

We are just beginning a funding campaign for react-native-camera. Contributions are greatly appreciated. When we gain more than $250 we will begin distributing funds to core maintainers in a fully transparent manner. Feedback for this process is welcomed, we will continue to evolve the strategy as we grow and learn more.

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Thanks to Brent Vatne (@brentvatne) for the react-native-video module which provided me with a great example of how to set up this module.