react-native-vision-camera

A powerful, high-performance React Native Camera library.


Keywords
react, native, camera, react-native, react-native-camera, vision, javascript, typescript, android, ios, library, instagram, snapchat, ai, scanner, qrcode, barcode, qr-code, jsi, worklet, module, frame, processing, realtime, qr
License
MIT
Install
npm install react-native-vision-camera@3.9.0-beta.2

Documentation

VisionCamera

Features

VisionCamera is a powerful, high-performance Camera library for React Native. It features:

  • 📸 Photo and Video capture
  • 👁️ QR/Barcode scanner
  • 📱 Customizable devices and multi-cameras ("fish-eye" zoom)
  • 🎞️ Customizable resolutions and aspect-ratios (4k/8k images)
  • ⏱️ Customizable FPS (30..240 FPS)
  • 🧩 Frame Processors (JS worklets to run facial recognition, AI object detection, realtime video chats, ...)
  • 🎨 Drawing shapes, text, filters or shaders onto the Camera
  • 🔍 Smooth zooming (Reanimated)
  • ⏯️ Fast pause and resume
  • 🌓 HDR & Night modes
  • ⚡ Custom C++/GPU accelerated video pipeline (OpenGL)

Install VisionCamera from npm:

npm i react-native-vision-camera
cd ios && pod install

..and get started by setting up permissions!

Documentation

ShadowLens

To see VisionCamera in action, check out ShadowLens!

Example

function App() {
  const device = useCameraDevice('back')

  if (device == null) return <NoCameraErrorView />
  return (
    <Camera
      style={StyleSheet.absoluteFill}
      device={device}
      isActive={true}
    />
  )
}

See the example app

Adopting at scale

This library helped you? Consider sponsoring!

VisionCamera is provided as is, I work on it in my free time.

If you're integrating VisionCamera in a production app, consider funding this project and contact me to receive premium enterprise support, help with issues, prioritize bugfixes, request features, help at integrating VisionCamera and/or Frame Processors, and more.

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