react-native-vision-camera

4.0.0-beta.0 (2024-02-29)

✨ Features

• Add takeSnapshot() to PreviewView (da6a818)
• Add CodeScanner pipeline (ImageAnalysis) (416f00f)
• Allow setting custom format in ImageWriter (46a1568)
• Give V4 🫴 (e53af0b)
• Implement native HardwareBuffer rendering for VideoPipeline (10e7708)
• Shutter sound and stabilization (66b4c84)
• Upload .apk as a GitHub artifact (#2575) (2c976d8)
• Use HDR or NIGHT extensions if available (34f62ec)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Cancel focus on session close (#2578) (9af6e61)
• Check for ImageAnalysis support (774148a)
• Fix "Unknown AF/AE/AWB State" error (#2592) (fabf019)
• Fix Precapture timed out after 5 seconds error (#2586) (369cb4a)
• Fix SENSOR_INFO_PHYSICAL_SIZE possibly being null on usb devices (d890230)
• Fix Frame Processor SIGSEV crash in VisionCameraScheduler::trigger by locking mutex in dispatchAsync (#2591) (55992bb)
• Implement takeSnaphot on iOS (282f105)
• Trigger measure and layout manually in PreviewView (#2588) (7ac6f4d)
• Use runOnUiThread only if needed (d7b3e0a)

📚 Documentation

• Fix toArrayBuffer example in Frame Processor Guide (#2595) (4c159af)
• Update docs for qualityBalance (cbe76b6)

3.9.0 (2024-02-16)

'tis a big one 😳 - VisionCamera 3.9.0 brings A TON of exciting new features :

👉 focus(...) for Android 👆
👉 flash for Android 📸
👉 enableFpsGraph for Android 📈
👉 enableGpuBuffers for Android 🔥
👉 A fully rewritten CameraCaptureSession to fix various blackscreen issues on Android 🚀
👉 A fully rewritten PreviewView to fix stretching issues on Android 🖼️
👉 AE/AF/AWB pre-capture focus for better quality photos on Android 📷
👉 Faster photo capture with qualityPrioritization options (speed, balanced, quality) 🏃
👉 Threading and Concurrency optimizations for faster Camera startup and switching speed 🧵
👉 Various issues fixed (maxImages have already been acquired, NullPointerException, Invalid PixelFormat, CameraDevice was already closed, ...) 💪

Full changelog:

✨ Features

• Flash for Android 🥳📸 (#2558) (37398cc)
• Implement focus() on Android (#2523) (fb1d82a)
• Create persistent CaptureSession to avoid any blackscreen issues or errors (#2494) (5acc64e)
• Add FPS Counter to Android (enableFpsGraph) (#2460) (9089014)
• Configures capture options with qualityPrioritization flags to shoot photos faster (*_MODE_FAST) (#2558) (37398cc)
• Add enableGpuBuffers property (#2557) (1a0bd8f), closes #2555
• Synchronize Frame properly (#2501) (d8c95c9)
• Add context to VisionCameraProxy (#2545) (24f43ef)
• Allow focus calls to be cancelable (#2567) (4168d8f)
• Bump org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-android from 1.5.2 to 1.7.3 (#2467) (fb96d00)
• Use yuv by default if no pixelFormat is set (#2441) (11eb1f6)

💨 Performance Improvements

• Use existing cameraQueue instead of yet another Thread (#2459) (8c5b603)
• Allow skipping pre-capture sequence if already focused (#2561) (a7701c8)
• Use GPU/CPU optimized ImageReaders when possible (#2488) (f896831)
• Fix double configuration flicker on fast device change (#2537) (b3a8827)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix PreviewView being stretched (#2519) (3192f5e) <-- this is a big one! 🥳
• Fix zoom not resetting in example app (395ee7a)
• Fix photo not saving in example app on Android 13+ (#2522) (a4e241a)
• Catch insufficient-storage errors (#2422) (b1fa065)
• Enable processNestedWorklets to fix runAsync in example (#2449) (587f2b1)
• Expose auto-focus system for Android (#2455) (b5eb01b)
• Fix maxImages have been acquired error in Frame Processor (#2430) (7e2889c)
• Fix NullPointerException in initFrameProcessorPlugin if plugin is not found (#2454) (02bc8a9)
• Fix NullPointerException in VideoPipeline.removeRecordingSessionOutputSurface (#2453) (bdbcf05)
• Fix pixelFormat being native when FP is set (#2450) (d64fc08)
• Fix priority being ignored in some Format filters (#2456) (d9a3011)
• Fix SharedArray JSI constructor allocating a new array instead of wrapping (#2444) (c911d25)
• Fix Unable to retrieve jni environment. Is the thread attached? errors by using jni::ThreadScope (#2457) (33e2adc)
• Fix Android C++ SharedArray logs (bc6f954)
• Fix crash in toArrayBuffer() by properly acquiring a reference on AHardwareBuffer* (#2490) (ae75e22)
• Fix HostObject destructors to make sure a JNI Environment is set up (#2462) (5f75b9e)
• Prevent phone from going to sleep if Camera is active (#2421) (a739ca1)
• Properly check HardwareBuffer usage flags before setting them (#2488) (f896831)
• Refresh Permissions on AppState change (#2420) (97684af)
• Remove unneeded synchronized keyword (f400487)
• remove yarn in gitignore (5c5d629)
• Use ThreadScope::WithClassLoader to also load custom JNI Types (#2461) (9e12975)
• Add extra sanity-checks for CaptureRequest (#2571) (b105de0)
• Fix nullable props (#2573) (bda43d3)
• Replace deprecated RCTEventEmitter with UIManager (#2569) (57c6431)
• Fix minFocusDistance being NaN on some emulators (e95264f)
• Properly type Format Templates (#2499) (cd5fdd4)
• Check if session is still valid before resetting AF after focus (#2550) (b7e24c4)
• Fix "Invalid pixel format 35" HardwareBuffer crash (#2547) (a2a2e94)
• Fix java.lang.NoSuchMethodError in FrameProcessor initializer (#2546) (1011c3f)
• Fix 60 FPS crashing on some Samsungs (#2556) (4786885)
• Fix VideoPipeline crash on Samsung (Disable USAGE_GPU_SAMPLED_IMAGE ImageReader) (#2555) (ad33dd9)
• Return after configure error (14daaaa)
• Use acquireLatestImage instead of acquireNextImage for CodeScanner (#2549) (ec7ce36)
• Fix PreviewView stretching on Android (now finally a real fix) (#2564) (5df5ca9)
• Take Orientation into account for PreviewView (#2565) (83c0184)
• Fix Session has been closed; further changes are illegal error by using tryStopRepeating() (#2568) (129e21f)
• Move PreviewView into SurfaceView to make it simpler (#2566) (bcd1264)

📚 Documentation

• New Frame Processor Plugins docs (#2434) (4041ee8)
• Use SVG PlayStore Button (aad7d2b)
• Be more explicit about videoHeight/videoWidth (97168c6)
• Be more explicit about video + preview link and add aspect ratio (14554fa)
• Add react-native-vision-camera-face-detector to the FP plugin list (#2534) (0ed3aed)

3.9.0-beta.6 (2024-02-15)

✨ Features

• Allow focus calls to be cancelable (#2567) (4168d8f)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix Session has been closed; further changes are illegal error by using tryStopRepeating() (#2568) (129e21f)
• Move PreviewView into SurfaceView to make it simpler (#2566) (bcd1264)

3.9.0-beta.5 (2024-02-15)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix PreviewView stretching on Android (now finally a real fix) (#2564) (5df5ca9)
• Take Orientation into account for PreviewView (#2565) (83c0184)

3.9.0-beta.4 (2024-02-14)

✨ Features

• Add context to VisionCameraProxy (#2545) (24f43ef)
• Add enableGpuBuffers property (#2557) (1a0bd8f), closes #2555
• Flash for Android 🥳📸 (#2558) (37398cc)
• Configures capture options with qualityPrioritization flags to shoot photos faster (*_MODE_FAST) (#2558) (37398cc)

💨 Performance Improvements

• Allow skipping pre-capture sequence if already focused (#2561) (a7701c8)
• Fix double configuration flicker on fast device change (#2537) (b3a8827)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Check if session is still valid before resetting AF after focus (#2550) (b7e24c4)
• Fix "Invalid pixel format 35" HardwareBuffer crash (#2547) (a2a2e94)
• Fix java.lang.NoSuchMethodError in FrameProcessor initializer (#2546) (1011c3f)
• Fix 60 FPS crashing on some Samsungs (#2556) (4786885)
• Fix VideoPipeline crash on Samsung (Disable USAGE_GPU_SAMPLED_IMAGE ImageReader) (#2555) (ad33dd9)
• Return after configure error (14daaaa)
• Use acquireLatestImage instead of acquireNextImage for CodeScanner (#2549) (ec7ce36)

📚 Documentation

• Add react-native-vision-camera-face-detector to the FP plugin list (#2534) (0ed3aed)

2.16.8 (2024-02-08)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix capture/no-valid-data thrown when calling stopRecording() on some Android devices (#2466) (377264d)
• Revert: #1955 unbinding camera (#2528) (5651905)

3.9.0-beta.3 (2024-02-08)

✨ Features

• Implement focus() on Android (#2523) (fb1d82a)

3.9.0-beta.2 (2024-02-07)

In this release I finally fixed the PreviewView stretching issue!! 👏🥳🚀

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix PreviewView being stretched (#2519) (3192f5e) <-- this is a big one! 🥳
• Fix zoom not resetting in example app (395ee7a)
• Fix photo not saving in example app on Android 13+ (#2522) (a4e241a)

3.9.0-beta.1 (2024-02-06)

✨ Features

• Create persistent CaptureSession to avoid any blackscreen issues or errors (#2494) (5acc64e)
• Synchronize Frame properly (#2501) (d8c95c9)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix minFocusDistance being NaN on some emulators (e95264f)
• Properly type Format Templates (#2499) (cd5fdd4)

📚 Documentation

• Be more explicit about videoHeight/videoWidth (97168c6)
• Be more explicit about video + preview link and add aspect ratio (14554fa)

3.9.0-beta.0 (2024-02-01)

✨ Features

• Use GPU/CPU optimized ImageReaders when possible (#2488) (f896831)
• Add FPS Counter to Android (enableFpsGraph) (#2460) (9089014)
• Bump org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-android from 1.5.2 to 1.7.3 (#2467) (fb96d00)
• Use yuv by default if no pixelFormat is set (#2441) (11eb1f6)

💨 Performance Improvements

• Use existing cameraQueue instead of yet another Thread (#2459) (8c5b603)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Catch insufficient-storage errors (#2422) (b1fa065)
• Enable processNestedWorklets to fix runAsync in example (#2449) (587f2b1)
• Expose auto-focus system for Android (#2455) (b5eb01b)
• Fix maxImages have been acquired error in Frame Processor (#2430) (7e2889c)
• Fix NullPointerException in initFrameProcessorPlugin if plugin is not found (#2454) (02bc8a9)
• Fix NullPointerException in VideoPipeline.removeRecordingSessionOutputSurface (#2453) (bdbcf05)
• Fix pixelFormat being native when FP is set (#2450) (d64fc08)
• Fix priority being ignored in some Format filters (#2456) (d9a3011)
• Fix SharedArray JSI constructor allocating a new array instead of wrapping (#2444) (c911d25)
• Fix Unable to retrieve jni environment. Is the thread attached? errors by using jni::ThreadScope (#2457) (33e2adc)
• Fix Android C++ SharedArray logs (bc6f954)
• Fix crash in toArrayBuffer() by properly acquiring a reference on AHardwareBuffer* (#2490) (ae75e22)
• Fix HostObject destructors to make sure a JNI Environment is set up (#2462) (5f75b9e)
• Prevent phone from going to sleep if Camera is active (#2421) (a739ca1)
• Properly check HardwareBuffer usage flags before setting them (#2488) (f896831)
• Refresh Permissions on AppState change (#2420) (97684af)
• Remove unneeded synchronized keyword (f400487)
• remove yarn in gitignore (5c5d629)
• Use ThreadScope::WithClassLoader to also load custom JNI Types (#2461) (9e12975)

📚 Documentation

• New Frame Processor Plugins docs (#2434) (4041ee8)

3.8.2 (2024-01-18)

✨ Features

• SharedArray:wrapData:withSize init for iOS (#2410) (992934e)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Throw not-compatible-with-outputs error when adding both CodeScannerPipeline and VideoPipeline (#2411) (e21a1c2)

3.8.1 (2024-01-17)

✨ Features

• Add SharedArray.getSize() (#2406) (2f21609)
• Expose FrameProcessorPlugin TS type (03ee0a2)
• Use JSI's ArrayBuffer instead of TypedArray (#2408) (ba1d7ee)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes a crash on Android when using Frame Processor on API 29 (CPU + GPU flag use in PRIVATE/YUV) (#2408) (ba1d7ee)
• Fixes a crash on Android when using frame.toArrayBuffer() due to the resulting HardwareBuffer being closed (#2408) (ba1d7ee)
• Fix C++ build-error when trying to use JSITypedArray.h (#2396) (60f8a8c)
• Make Frame properties readonly in Types (#2397) (e825e21)
• Release MediaActionSound after playing (#2390) (bdad4e1)
• Use property accessors on Frame (#2400) (773f278)

3.8.0 (2024-01-15)

Breaking change: Native Frame Processor Plugin constructors now take an additional argument: VisionCameraProxy. This can be used to create instances of SharedArray, see #2383 for more information.

✨ Features

• Add minFocusDistance prop to CameraDevice (#2392) (58ef21e)
• Add zero-copy SharedArray type to Frame Processor Plugins (#2383) (29fe98c)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Avoid "CameraNotReady" errors when updating props in background (#2382) (a468602)
• Fix CamcorderProfile out of range error (#2389) (17ae5fa)
• Fix JNI TypedArray error (fe614a4)
• Fix SharedArray name (d747933)

📚 Documentation

• Add platform: iOS annotation to regionOfInterest prop (9ecc09c)
• Fix typo (ec2f8c2)
• Recommend [@latest](https://github.com/latest) CLI version (b9a69a2)
• Update FrameProcessorPlugin's init method callsites (#2385) (84598c2)
• Update SharedArray* type (ae7f5e2)

3.7.1 (2024-01-11)

✨ Features

• Re-throw error on JS side instead of just logging on native side (#2366) (34c5b11)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Also call onInitialized when isActive=false (a8b85a3), closes /github.com/mrousavy/react-native-vision-camera/issues/2364#issuecomment-1883201425
• Fix Camera not stopping when isActive is set to false (#2361) (2b10622)
• Fix Preview stretching on Android (#2377) (322b6fc)

📚 Documentation

• Add ShadowLens section to docs (dc8df80)
• Add tap to focus example (0ffaa7f)
• Update BUG_REPORT (eb14aa1)
• Update README.md (e934115)

2.16.7 (2024-01-11)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix JSI Runtime Pointer being null in bridgeless mode (38ba240)

3.7.0 (2024-01-08)

Quite a big release again! 🥳

Notable changes:

1. If you use the CodeScanner API, make sure to use the new VisionCamera_enableCodeScanner flag for Android which makes sure the MLKit model always gets bundled! (see the docs) 🕵️
2. A ton of blackscreen and out of sync issues have been fixed on Android. See this PR.

✨ Features

• Add new enableCodeScanner prop to build.gradle to make sure CodeScanner always works (#2355) (5c99728)
• Make enableCodeScanner expo config-plugin install the native dependency (#2348) (a8c16e3)
• Make Frame thread-safe and improve error messages (#2327) (895f3ec)
• Add two new format/ errors: invalid-video-stabilization-mode and format-required (#2354) (cc60ad2)
• Support 60 FPS on Samsung devices (if available) (#2339) (0d21bc3)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix blackscreen issues and lifecycle when closing Camera (#2339) (0d21bc3)
• Fix a scenario where the concurrent configure { ... } mechanism could drop important updates (#2339) (0d21bc3)
• Fix Android lifecycle by allowing Android to close the CameraDevice when isActive=false (#2339) (0d21bc3)
• Fix Android blackscreens by refactoring CameraSession setup (#2339) (0d21bc3)
• Fix "photo/video is not enabled" errors (#2339) (0d21bc3)
• Fix "maxImages (3) has already been acquired" error (#2352) (2cd22ad)
• Fix "The given value for videoStabilizationMode could not be parsed" error (#2353) (833ffb8)
• Fix crash when trying to console.log(frame) (#2335) (3dc7511)
• Fix for inset of SENSOR_INFO_ACTIVE_ARRAY_SIZE for Android < 11 (#2306) (7905f2c)
• Fix iOS native enableZoomGesture zoom logic (#2329) (30c4f9e)
• Fix min/max exposure range on Android (#2304) (0d3ecd1)
• Unwrap boxed JNI types directly (#2337) (ef4e9fa)
• Validate input props (fps, hdr, torch, ...) instead of silently crashing (#2354) (cc60ad2)

💨 Performance Improvements

• Make getCameraPermission and getMicrophonePermission synchronous (#2302) (591cf30)
• Don't re-create anything if session is closing down (#2339) (0d21bc3)

📚 Documentation

• Add plugin by mgcrea/vision-camera-barcode-scanner (7241342)
• Create pinch-to-zoom example for docs (2d84b7f)

3.6.17 (2023-12-14)

✨ Features

• Concurrent/Cancellable configure (#2282) (977bf56)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Check torch only if needed (#2215) (bd5c967)

📚 Documentation

• Add ShadowLens announcement (#2285) (3a627c7)

3.6.16 (2023-12-12)

✨ Features

• Add width and height to VideoFile output (#2281) (9a187c6)

2.16.6 (2023-12-12)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Use my Apple ID account (2d74f0f)
• Fix build by setting NDEBUG=1 preprocessor flag in release mode (https://github.com/mrousavy/react-native-vision-camera/pull/2270) by @tomekzaw

3.6.15 (2023-12-12)

✨ Features

• Add onStarted and onStopped events (#2273) (4ee52d6)
• Add format filter for iso (#2234) (52f78a1)
• Support for C++ Frame Processor Plugins by publishing VisionCamera as a prefab (#2251) (248a08b)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix NoSuchElementException in getRecommendedBitRate (#2266) (a612eb9)
• Fix Only the original thread that created a view hierarchy can touch it's views error (#2278) (2630650)
• Fix out-of-memory crash in QR code scanner by closing Image (#2267) (9600a38)
• Fix RN 0.73 error "'hasConstants' overrides nothing" at CameraDevicesManager.kt (#2264) (9949184)
• Only close image once (df32d2c)
• Only copy over C++ headers (6107a24)

📚 Documentation

• Update C++ Frame Processor docs (#2277) (7fccee2)