Camera library for async sharings

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Camera library

We've a feature already on our product roadmap which plans to enable users to record themselves doing a sharing, the use-cases for that vary, initially we've in mind async sharings and personal sharings to keep it to yourself (probably accessible through "your Journey" and only stored locally on your device)

In order for us to enable that we need a to implement a video&audio recording setup.

I will use this issue to post my findings and observations on different libraries that I'm experimenting with.

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react-native-vision-camera

Proof of concept #2857 🚧

I'm playing with react-native-vision-camera at the moment.

I'll list some observations on this specific comment about that library and link it to a PR in the future with some code.

Relevant guides

Recording videos - the Video seems to be stored in a temp space according to this doc then I would assume we can use another API to save the file/upload it somewhere

Observations

• Typescript ✅
• Documentation seems nice
• Codecs available
• File types
• Frame processors - flagging videos with 🍆
• MIT License

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react-native-camera-kit

Starting to look at react-native-camera-kit

Observations

• Typescript ✅
• No video support? 😞

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expo-camera

Proof of concept #2862 🚧

Starting to look at expo-camera

Observations

• Typescript ✅
• Super popular / widely used
• Very good docs
• Seem to work great if we'd manage to fix the current error when recording 😢
  [Error: Call to function 'ExponentCamera.record' has been rejected. → Caused by: Module 'expo.modules.interfaces.filesystem.AppDirectories' not found. Are you sure all modules are linked correctly?]
  As a result of the recordAsync function call
• MIT License

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Worth mentioning NPM search rank criteria