# react-native-cameraroll/react-native-cameraroll

CameraRoll is a react-native native module that provides access to the local camera roll or photo library.

Repository: https://github.com/react-native-cameraroll/react-native-cameraroll
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-native-cameraroll
Language: Java
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-19T02:33:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 29, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2764, "days_push": 15, "days_rel": 392, "gap_med": 69.5, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1079, forks 448 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:29.953182+00:00)

## What it is
A React Native native module that provides access to the local camera roll or photo library on Android and iOS. It was extracted from React Native core and lets apps save photos/videos and query the device's media library.

## Use cases
- save photos taken in my app to the device camera roll
- list photos and videos from the user's photo library
- pick media from the camera roll in a react native app
- access the photo library on android and ios with one api
- delete or manage photos in the device gallery
- request photo library permissions in react native

## When to choose
- you are building a React Native app that needs to read from or write to the device's photo library
- you want a single cross-platform API for camera roll access on Android and iOS
- you are migrating from the deprecated CameraRoll API in React Native core

## When to avoid
- you are building a native iOS or Android app without React Native
- you need full camera capture functionality rather than library access
- you need advanced media editing or transcoding features

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: sdk, file-system, image-processing
- domain: mobile-development, media, photography
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: react-native, camera-roll, photo-library, native-module, media-access, android, ios

## Member repositories
- react-native-cameraroll/react-native-cameraroll (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:29.953182+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 2026-08-30T06:53:06.087764+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/react-native-cameraroll/react-native-cameraroll (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:29.953182+00:00, sha 053119eab6c7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.