This is a fork of lwansbrough's react-native-camera that adds the missing support for android. However this support is not yet production-ready and missing many important features. Please take a look at the properties and methods below to see the currently implemented features and take a look at the roadmap to see what is planned.

Getting started

• npm install https://github.com/timmh/react-native-camera.git
• add to your settings.gradle:

include ':com.lwansbrough.ReactCamera'
project(':com.lwansbrough.ReactCamera').projectDir = new File(settingsDir, '../node_modules/react-native-camera/android')

• add to your app/build.gradle:

dependencies {
	...
	compile project(':com.lwansbrough.ReactCamera')
}

• add to your MainActivity.java:

  • import com.facebook.react.CompositeReactPackage;
  • import com.lwansbrough.ReactCamera.ReactCameraPackage;
  • in onCreate:

  mReactInstanceManager = ReactInstanceManager.builder()
    ...
    .addPackage(new ReactCameraPackage(this))
    ...
  

• profit

var Camera = require('react-native-camera'); //require the camera component
...
render () {
	return (
		<Camera style={{width: 200, height: 200}}></Camera>
	);
}

Or take a look at the example project

Properties

These properties are a subset of the original ones. The goal is to implement all of them to get the same api on both platforms.

captureTarget

Values: Camera.constants.CaptureTarget.cameraRoll (default), Camera.constants.CaptureTarget.memory (deprecated),

This property allows you to specify the target output of the captured image data. By default the image binary is sent back as a base 64 encoded string.

type

Values: Camera.constants.Type.front or "front", Camera.constants.Type.back or "back" (default)

Use the type property to specify which camera to use.

Component methods

You can access component methods by adding a ref (ie. ref="camera") prop to your <Camera> element, then you can use this.refs.camera.capture(cb), etc. inside your component.

capture([options,] callback)

Captures photos from the camera. Set the captureTarget property to specify how to save it.

Subviews

This component supports subviews, so if you wish to use the camera view as a background or if you want to layout buttons/images/etc. inside the camera then you can do that.

Roadmap

1. camera view
   • add aspect property
   • add orientation property
2. capture support
   • improve quality of captured photos
   • correct captured photo rotation and add support for the rotation option
   • add disk captureTarget
   • video capturing & captureAudio option
3. zoom & flash
4. barcode reading