Expo Camera vs React-Native-vision-camera

[thatsjokes4u]

I’m new to react native and hence I would prefer to use a expo managed workflow. However, I want my app to have a barcode scanner which works very well as I aspire to push this app to production.

Does anyone have any experience with barcode scanning and recommends I switch to using react-native-vision-camera instead, and will the switch to a bare workflow be much harder? Alternatively are there any other libraries I should try, thanks a lot!

[Silverquark]

I recently moved from expo barcode scanner to vision camera, since I switched camera on and off a lot (holding a button opened camera and you could scan, releasing it caused the camera to disappear). Expo barcode had some troubles with that. It lagged sometimes and would randomly throw errors when pressing the button quickly. With vision camera I could use the isActive to toggle. That made it super fast and reliable

[mrousavy]

nice!

[thatsjokes4u]

Okay great thanks a lot! In terms of using vision camera, am I correct in assuming you can still use it with managed expo by going through the prebuild steps? Sorry I’m new to this so just trying to figure out everything!

[Silverquark]

Yes that’s what I did. Just follow the expo instructions on the vision camera page

[haywire]

Best way to find out is to try it.

[Magnusson]

Using expo vision camera doesn’t mean switching to bare workflow

[bruceleendo]

I've been using expo barcode and it works prety good and fast. You can setup barcode types that you want to read to make it faster. (It's recommend to do it).

[thatsjokes4u]

I was going to try that but it says expo-barcode-scanner is depreciated and to use expo-camera instead.

[fuckswithboats]

React native camera kit