Chapter 7. Integrating Native Modules

So far you've seen that React Native contains a large amount of functionality right out of the box. It provides an easy way for you to use a wide variety of native features via JavaScript, but sometimes you may need something that isn't yet covered by the built-in React Native components. Luckily, React Native is fully extensible via Native Modules. Thanks to a very active community, there is a growing list of custom components that are filling in the gaps. In this chapter, we'll use one of those third-party Native Modules to add camera support to our React Notes application.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

• Installing the custom React Native camera module using npm
• Adding a CameraScreen and camera component
• Saving captured images to disk
• Displaying the captured images in the NoteImageScreen