react-native-vision-camera/README.md

A powerful, high-performance React Native Camera library.

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### 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](https://react-native-vision-camera.com/docs/guides/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:

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

..and get started by [setting up permissions](https://react-native-vision-camera.com/docs/guides)!

### Documentation

* [Guides](https://react-native-vision-camera.com/docs/guides)
* [API](https://react-native-vision-camera.com/docs/api)
* [Example](./example/)
* [Frame Processor Plugins](https://react-native-vision-camera.com/docs/guides/frame-processor-plugins-community)

### ShadowLens

To see VisionCamera in action, check out [ShadowLens](https://mrousavy.com/projects/shadowlens)!

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### Example

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

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

> See the [example](./example/) app

### Adopting at scale

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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](https://github.com/sponsors/mrousavy) and <a href="mailto:me@mrousavy.com?subject=Adopting VisionCamera at scale">contact me</a> to receive premium enterprise support, help with issues, prioritize bugfixes, request features, help at integrating VisionCamera and/or Frame Processors, and more.

### Socials

* 🐦 [**Follow me on Twitter**](https://twitter.com/mrousavy) for updates
* 📝 [**Check out my blog**](https://mrousavy.com/blog) for examples and experiments
* 💬 [**Join the Margelo Community Discord**](https://margelo.com/discord) for chatting about VisionCamera
* 💖 [**Sponsor me on GitHub**](https://github.com/sponsors/mrousavy) to support my work
* 🍪 [**Buy me a Ko-Fi**](https://ko-fi.com/mrousavy) to support my work