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fullstackcircus
2y

hey... can I build a FUCKING android image that uses a camera library?

react-native-camera: deprecated, no longer maintained

react-native-vision-camera: it's like globalthermonuclear war with versioning and patches and support and splat splat bullshit in that repo, don't even dare look at the issues there, trust me, please

react-native-camera-kit: doesn't compile for targetSdk 33, no matter what the FUCK you do

jesus christ i want to scan a fucking QR code with my app and my gradle configs have turned into world war III where the fuck did we go wrong folks

rant

kill me

death

rage

🤡

clown

android

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  • 15
    2y
    You did go wrong by using react lol
  • 2
    2y
    Yeah, was gonna say that what was the problem with Android's Camera2 API...

    Then I read about react-native...

    I'm afraid I can't provide pointers to js bridge libs for Android, but maybe, if all you want is to scan a qr, you can just fire a camera intent and leverage whichever camera app the user has.

    It's not ideal, I know, dice you don't get any control over whether the taken picture is decodable, etc, but personally, I'd take that in a heartbeat before JavaScript in my Android.
  • 2
    2y
    At first I thought you were actually building android and not just some app. What a disappointment.
  • 2
    2y
    And thats why going with a crossplatform solution for an app that requires native features is a bad idea. Go back to the drawing board and proceed with building a native app, the use case doesnt seem that complex.
  • 1
    2y
    Encountered the same while building a scanner for the grocery store I used to work at.

    Went with native-compiled because of the very shit that you're dealing with atm.

    But if you're in a bind, you could use a react webview and call into QuaggaJS which does barcodes. Fuck if I can remember if it does QR but I'd be willing to bet something equivalent is floating around out there assuming you care to look.
  • 2
    2y
    To those interested, finally got it working with teslamotors/react-native-camera-kit (actually that repo is quite well maintained, all bugs are tackled quickly and ferociously)

    I _did_ have to back off to compile sdk 31, but that's another battle for another day...
  • 1
    2y
    @fullstackclown does this mean all the Tesla interfaces are built on react?
  • 0
    2y
    @fullstackclown cool. You get a chance post a picture or a video of it in action.
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