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Does not play well with Expo Camera

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I’m using the Camera module from Expo SDK31 with react-navigation v3.x

I have a navigation screen that opens on top of the camera view screen (stacknav). When going back to the camera screen, the camera view does not work anymore and is black.

Not sure what is happening exactly, but it looks like the camera view does not reinitialize properly when the screen gets focused again. I don’t know if this is an Expo problem or this lib.

These workaround works:

Remove useScreens() call
Unmount the camera view when the screen is unfocused and remount on focus (using withNavigationFocus

Issue Analytics

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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slorbercommented, May 29, 2020

I don’t know sorry 😉 we can close it and if I see it again I may reopen

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WoLewickicommented, May 29, 2020

Does this issue still exist or can I close it?

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