# react-native-camera/react-native-camera

A Camera component for React Native. Also supports barcode scanning!

Repository: https://github.com/react-native-camera/react-native-camera
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-native-camera
Homepage: https://react-native-camera.github.io/react-native-camera/
Language: Java
License Family: other
Topics: react-native, face-detection, rncamera, camera
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-06-07T10:03:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4173, "days_push": 1183, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9628, forks 3508 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:36.429587+00:00)

## What it is
A camera component library for React Native providing photo/video capture, barcode scanning, and face detection. It is now deprecated in favor of react-native-vision-camera.

## Use cases
- capture photos and videos in a react native app
- scan barcodes and qr codes with the phone camera
- detect faces using the device camera
- add a camera view to an ios and android app

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy react native app already using rncamera
- you cannot migrate to react-native-vision-camera yet

## When to avoid
- starting a new react native project - use react-native-vision-camera instead
- you need active maintenance, bug fixes, or new features
- you need a permissively licensed dependency - it has no license file

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, computer-vision, image-processing
- domain: mobile-development, computer-vision, frontend
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: react-native, camera, barcode-scanning, face-detection, deprecated, mobile, android, ios

## Member repositories
- react-native-camera/react-native-camera (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:36.429587+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:21:21.431713+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/react-native-camera/react-native-camera (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:36.429587+00:00, sha 510f8d79a41f)
  - homepage: https://react-native-camera.github.io/react-native-camera/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:21:10.764975+00:00, sha fbc42f28c789)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.