react-native-image-picker vs react-native-camera

react-native-image-picker

:sunrise_over_mountains: A React Native module that allows you to use native UI to select media from the device library or directly from the camera. (by react-native-image-picker)

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react-native-camera

A Camera component for React Native. Also supports barcode scanning! (by react-native-camera)

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react-native-image-picker		react-native-camera
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13	Mentions	7
8,361	Stars	9,632
0.5%	Growth	-
7.5	Activity	0.0
9 days ago	Latest Commit	11 months ago
Java	Language	Java
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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react-native-image-picker

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-native-image-picker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-05.

Issues installing react-native-image-picker in React Native app
1 project | /r/reactnative | 23 May 2023

TIRAMISU symbol is not available on your targetsdk. Take a look here: https://github.com/react-native-image-picker/react-native-image-picker/issues/2018
Image picking library selection limit resets & won't show previously selected images
1 project | /r/reactnative | 21 May 2023

Hi, I'm using the [react-native-image-picker](https://github.com/react-native-image-picker/react-native-image-picker) library to pick images from the gallery it works really fine.
What's the best practice way to save user images so they can be used responsively? Save it at multiple sizes?
2 projects | /r/reactnative | 5 Jan 2023

I'm going to be getting images from the user (using react-native-image-picker) saving them in Firebase Cloud Storage.
Top 10+ Best React Native UI Components for Mobile App Development
28 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023

GitHub Stars: 7.8k
React Native ImagePicker : Pick Image from Camera and Gallery in Android
1 project | dev.to | 17 Nov 2022

Image Picker is a javascript library for react native that provides two methods one for taking image from camera and other from gallery. For using library first install react-native-image-picker in the project directory:
Photo question
1 project | /r/reactnative | 17 Aug 2022

you can see the source code here.
"Undefined is not an object"
1 project | /r/reactnative | 1 Jun 2022

here is the documentation for the library: https://github.com/react-native-image-picker/react-native-image-picker
React Native: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean.java.lang.String.equals(java.lang.Object)' on a null reference object
1 project | /r/reactnative | 28 Apr 2022
Is there a native way to build an image picker/photo upload? It seems like react-native-image-picker is popular, but can I make one without a library?
1 project | /r/reactnative | 13 Sep 2021

It's simple Java and Objective-C code. Eq. https://github.com/react-native-image-picker/react-native-image-picker/blob/main/android/src/main/java/com/imagepicker/ImagePickerModule.java here is the roughly 200 lines` file. You can build it on your own, however, you need to remember that native code will be needed as you need to retrieve files from the device and it's unreachable from JS code. You need to consider all permissions, especially in iOS.
Is there a RN library for image picking similar to whatsapp image picker ?
1 project | /r/reactnative | 26 Jun 2021

Agreed. Currently I'm using react-native-image-picker. However I can't mimic this exact behavior with it. So I'm bothered whether I have to develop native modules for this.

react-native-camera

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-native-camera. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-04.

Top 10+ Best React Native UI Components for Mobile App Development
28 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023

GitHub Stars: 9.6k
How I go with react native in late 2022
33 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2022

for many years, react-native-camera was a good option for using the camera in react-native but now it's deprecated. a good option is react-native-camera-vision which includes a set of well-designed API. also this library is more optimized than react-native-camera.
how to implement AR in react native
3 projects | /r/reactnative | 13 Sep 2021
Is there an easy way to create an app on Android and iOS at the same time?
2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 24 Aug 2021
Image Labeler App - AWS Amplify Auth, API (GraphQL), DataStore, Storage, Predictions + React Native
4 projects | dev.to | 9 Apr 2021

There are some additional steps around adding permissions that we need to do. Follow instructions for iOS and/or Android.
Is ReactNative suitable for building a native app like DuoLingo?
2 projects | /r/reactnative | 27 Dec 2020

Yup, this library will help you with camera access.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-native-image-picker and react-native-camera you can also consider the following projects:

multer - Node.js middleware for handling `multipart/form-data`.

react-native-vision-camera - 📸 A powerful, high-performance React Native Camera library.

ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

masked-view - React Native Masked View Library

MaterialDateRangePicker - A material Date Range Picker based on wdullaers MaterialDateTimePicker

react-native-camera-kit - A high performance, easy to use, rock solid camera library for React Native apps.

Awesome Image Picker - Awesome Image Picker library will pick images/gifs with beautiful interface. Supports image or gif, Single and Multiple Image selection.

CompreFace - Leading free and open-source face recognition system

react-native-arkit - React Native binding for iOS ARKit

picker - Picker is a cross-platform UI component for selecting an item from a list of options.

hms-ml-demo - HMS ML Demo provides an example of integrating Huawei ML Kit service into applications. This example demonstrates how to integrate services provided by ML Kit, such as face detection, text recognition, image segmentation, asr, and tts.