What is the best alternative of react-native-camera as it is now deprecated?

Question

I am working on a project that requires a custom camera view in react-native. And the best option I found is react-native-camera but lack of maintenance, it is deprecated now. So I searched a lot of libraries in react-native but did not found.

Etty

You can use React Native Vision Camera by Marc Rousavy. – Pyroligneous

Answer 1

You can go with expo-camera

works on both ios and android ✌️

Tjirebon

Expo Camera is broken on IOS if the screen orientation is locked. Bug was reported years ago and it's not fixed. – Shipwright

Answer 2

You can use react-native-vision-camera.

npm link > https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-vision-camera

Angleaangler

Answer 3

You can use react-native-vision-camera package

npm link : https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-vision-camera

github : https://github.com/mrousavy/react-native-vision-camera

docs: https://mrousavy.com/react-native-vision-camera/docs/guides/

installation:

npm i react-native-vision-camera
npx pod-install

Berrios

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Answer 4

You can use react-native-cam-gallery it have other useful functionality as well.

link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-cam-gallery

Lithoid

I will definitely try . – Etty

Answer 5

There is a new cool library from Tesla: https://github.com/teslamotors/react-native-camera-kit

Woodwork