find alternative to react-native-camera-kit

[siddarthkay]

Problem

react-native-camera-kit is not compatible with new architecture on Android and the library maintainers have expressed that implementing support for the new architecture is not in their roadmap/interest.

ref -> teslamotors/react-native-camera-kit#537

I have opened a thread in react-native working group to see if I can generate any interest from react-native team to send a PR for react-native-camera-kit enabling support for new architecture on Android.

ref -> reactwg/react-native-new-architecture#167 (comment)

However we must find alternatives to this library since we can not rely on them to add support and this blocks our migration to new architecture on Android.

Way forward

• Experiment with : https://github.com/mrousavy/react-native-vision-camera or any other library which has support for new architecture.
• Once a suitable library is found, remove react-native-camera-kit and update usages with the new library from previous step.

[mrousavy]

Try react-native-vision-camera :)

[siddarthkay]

@mrousavy : react-native-vision-camera is indeed one of the options we are considering.
I plan to do a quick experiment with it and see how it behaves with new architecture.

Thank you.

[siddarthkay]

update : we no longer need to change the camera library because we were able to move to new architecture on android with the help of : reactwg/react-native-new-architecture#135
ref -> #20950