🎈 React Native Camera Kit

A high performance, fully featured, rock solid
camera library for React Native applications

Cross Platform (iOS and Android) Optimized for performance and high photo capture rate QR / Barcode scanning support Camera preview support in iOS simulator

Installation

Mostly automatic install with autolinking (RN > 0.60)

npm install react-native-camera-kit --save

cd ios && pod install && cd ..

Mostly automatic install with react-native link (RN < 0.60)

npm install react-native-camera --save

react-native link react-native-camera

Install using npm or yarn:

npm install react-native-camera-kit --save

Or if you're using yarn:

yarn add react-native-camera-kit

Running the example project

• yarn bootstrap
• yarn example ios or yarn example android

APIs

CameraKitCamera - Camera component

import { CameraKitCamera } from "react-native-camera-kit";

<CameraKitCamera
  ref={(cam) => (this.camera = cam)}
  style={{
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: "white",
  }}
  cameraOptions={{
    flashMode: "auto", // on/off/auto(default)
    focusMode: "on", // off/on(default)
    zoomMode: "on", // off/on(default)
    ratioOverlay: "1:1", // optional
    ratioOverlayColor: "#00000077", // optional
  }}
  onReadCode={(
    event // optional
  ) => console.log(event.nativeEvent.codeStringValue)}
  resetFocusTimeout={0} // optional
  resetFocusWhenMotionDetected={true} // optional
/>

Prop	Type	Description
resetFocusTimeout	Number	iOS only. Dismiss tap to focus after this many milliseconds. Default 0 (disabled). Example: 5000 is 5 seconds.
resetFocusWhenMotionDetected	Boolean	iOS only. Dismiss tap to focus when focus area content changes. Native iOS feature, see documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avcapturedevice/1624644-subjectareachangemonitoringenabl?language=objc). Default true.
saveToCameraRoll	Boolean	Using the camera roll is slower than using regular files stored in your app. On an iPhone X in debug mode, on a real phone, we measured around 100-150ms processing time to save to the camera roll. Note: This only work on real devices. It will hang indefinitly on simulators.
saveToCameraRollWithPhUrl	Boolean	iOS only. If true, speeds up photo taking by about 5-50ms (measured on iPhone X) by only returning a rn-cameraroll-compatible ph://.. URL instead of a regular file://.. URL.
cameraOptions	Object	See cameraOptions below

cameraOptions

Attribute	Values	Description
flashMode	'on'/'off'/'auto'	Camera flash mode (default is auto)
focusMode	'on'/'off'	Camera focus mode (default is on)
zoomMode	'on'/'off'	Camera zoom mode
ratioOverlay	['int':'int', ...]	Show a guiding overlay in the camera preview for the selected ratio. Does not crop image as of v9.0. Example: ['16:9', '1:1', '3:4']
ratioOverlayColor	Color	Any color with alpha (default is '#ffffff77')

CameraKitCamera API

checkDeviceCameraAuthorizationStatus

const isCameraAuthorized = await CameraKitCamera.checkDeviceCameraAuthorizationStatus();

return values:

AVAuthorizationStatusAuthorized returns true

AVAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined returns -1

otherwise, returns false

requestDeviceCameraAuthorization

const isUserAuthorizedCamera = await CameraKitCamera.requestDeviceCameraAuthorization();

AVAuthorizationStatusAuthorized returns true

otherwise, returns false

capture({ ... }) - must have the wanted camera capture reference

Capture image ({ saveToCameraRoll: boolean }). Using the camera roll is slower than using regular files stored in your app. On an iPhone X in debug mode, on a real phone, we measured around 100-150ms processing time to save to the camera roll.

const image = await this.camera.capture();

setFlashMode - must have the wanted camera capture reference

Set flash mode (auto/on/off)

const success = await this.camera.setFlashMode(newFlashData.mode);

setTorchMode - must have the wanted camera capture reference

Set Torch mode (on/off)

const success = await this.camera.setTorchMode(newTorchMode);

changeCamera - must have the wanted camera capture reference

Change to front/rear camera

const success = await this.camera.changeCamera();

CameraKitGalleryView - Gallery grid component

Native Gallery View (based on UICollectionView(iOS) and RecyclerView (Android))

import { CameraKitGalleryView } from 'react-native-camera-kit';

<CameraKitGalleryView
  ref={gallery => this.gallery = gallery}
  style={{flex: 1, marginTop: 20}}
  minimumInteritemSpacing={10}
  minimumLineSpacing={10}
  albumName={<ALBUM_NAME>}
  columnCount={3}
  onTapImage={event => {
    // event.nativeEvent.selected - ALL selected images ids
  }}
  selectedImages={<MAINTAIN_SELECETED_IMAGES>}
  selectedImageIcon={require('<IMAGE_FILE_PATH>'))}
  unSelectedImageIcon={require('<IMAGE_FILE_PATH>')}
/>

Attribute	Values	Description
minimumInteritemSpacing	Float	Minimum inner Item spacing
minimumLineSpacing	Float	Minimum line spacing
imageStrokeColor	Color	Image stroke color
imageStrokeColorWidth	Number > 0	Image stroke color width
albumName	String	Album name to show
columnCount	Integer	How many clumns in one row
onTapImage	Function	Callback when image tapped
selectedImages	Array	Selected images (will show the selected badge)
selectedImageIcon	require(_PATH_)	- DEPRECATED use Selection - Selected image badge image
unSelectedImageIcon	require(_PATH_)	- DEPRECATED use Selection - Unselected image badge image
selection	Object	See Selection section
getUrlOnTapImage	Boolean	iOS only - On image tap return the image internal (tmp folder) uri (intead of Photos.framework asset id)
customButtonStyle	Object	See Custom Button section
onCustomButtonPress	Function	Callback when custom button tapped
contentInset (iOS)	Object	The amount by which the gellery view content is inset from its edges (similar to ScrollView contentInset)
remoteDownloadIndicatorType	String ('spinner' / 'progress-bar' / 'progress-pie')	iOS only - see Images stored in iCloud
remoteDownloadIndicatorColor	Color	iOS only - Color of the remote download indicator to show
onRemoteDownloadChanged	Function	iOS only - Callback when the device curentlly download remote image stored in the iCloud.

Custom Button

Attribute	Values	Description
image	require(_PATH_)	Custom button image
backgroundColor	Color	Custom button background color

Selection

Attribute	Values	Description
selectedImage	require(_PATH_)	Selected image badge image
unselectedImage	require(_PATH_)	Unselected image badge image
imagePosition	bottom/top-right/left / center	Selected/Unselected badge image position (Default:top-right)
overlayColor	Color	Image selected overlay color
imageSizeAndroid	large/medium	Android Only - Selected badge image size

Images stored in iCloud

On iOS images can be stored in iCould if the device is low on space which means full-resolution photos automatically replaced with optimized version and full resolution versions are stored in iCloud.

In this case, we need to download the image from iCloud and Photos Framework by Apple does a great job. Downloading take time and we deal with UI, so we need to show loading/progress indicator. In order to do so, we provide 3 types of loading/progress inidcators:

Sets remoteDownloadIndicatorType prop (and remoteDownloadIndicatorColor in order to sets the Color) on CameraKitGalleryView:

Attribute	Values
'spinner'
'progress-bar'
'progress-pie'

In order to simulate this loading behaviour, since reach low on storage situation is hard, add this prop iCloudDownloadSimulateTime={TIME_IN_SECONDS}, just DO NOT FORGET TO REMOVE IT.

QR Code

import { CameraKitCameraScreen } from "react-native-camera-kit";

<CameraKitCameraScreen
  actions={{ rightButtonText: "Done", leftButtonText: "Cancel" }}
  onBottomButtonPressed={(event) => this.onBottomButtonPressed(event)}
  scanBarcode={true}
  laserColor={"blue"}
  frameColor={"yellow"}
  onReadCode={(event) => Alert.alert("Qr code found")} //optional
  hideControls={false} //(default false) optional, hide buttons and additional controls on top and bottom of screen
  showFrame={true} //(default false) optional, show frame with transparent layer (qr code or barcode will be read on this area ONLY), start animation for scanner,that stoped when find any code. Frame always at center of the screen
  offsetForScannerFrame={10} //(default 30) optional, offset from left and right side of the screen
  heightForScannerFrame={300} //(default 200) optional, change height of the scanner frame
  colorForScannerFrame={"red"} //(default white) optional, change colot of the scanner frame
/>;

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 us.

Credits

• M13ProgressSuite component by Marxon13 - A suite containing many tools to display progress information on iOS.

License

The MIT License.

See LICENSE