✨ Support for iOS Simulators by simulating Camera Visuals

[GrabbenD]

What feature or enhancement are you suggesting?

The ability to emulate a framebuffer for a virtual device in xCode's Simulator and Android Studio's Emulator would make it a lot easier to test if the app behaves correctly in a CICD environment. For instance, this could be achieved by adding support for debug mode with a prerecorded video or image file.

What Platforms whould this feature/enhancement affect?

iOS, Android

Alternatives/Workarounds

None

Additional information

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• [X] I searched for similar feature requests in this repository and found none.

[mrousavy]

Hi! Thanks for the feature request, that's indeed something I'm also missing from VisionCamera!

If you want to take a look at this and implement this yourself, I'd gladly give any pointers and help you out! 💪

Until then, it stays a feature request until I have some free time to take a look at this (hopefully soon 😉)

[rodgomesc]

it would be fantastic if we could emulate a virtual scene in visio camera similar to the one we have in the android emulator, today it's not possible to test camera api on ios without physical hardware right?, and this kind of functionality would be a differential that no other camera lib for react native has

[xeroxoid]

My 2 cents: https://github.com/teslamotors/react-native-camera-kit somehow does it

[AdamSheaHewett]

Please make this happen, it would make development so much easier

[rgomesrn]

yep, double thumbs up for this feature

[fervailanti]

+1 to the request! 👍🏼

[devartwa]

+1, would be nice.

[salorsino]

+2 would be really nice to have this, not using this library because of the lack of simulator support

[mrousavy]

Please stop spamming. This is a really nice feature request / nice-to-have, but I currently have other priorities (VisionCamera V3 and my company Margelo), if anyone wants to pay for the development of this feature let me know.

Otherwise I'll leave this open until someone submits a PR to implement this, or I have some free time sometime in the future.

[mrousavy]

Update; VisionCamera will never support simulating the Camera on the iOS simulator as it is insanely complex to do that in VisionCamera since it is built upon a Devices API. More info here: https://github.com/mrousavy/react-native-vision-camera/pull/1848#issuecomment-1735162249