Close camera programatically

[feardarkness]

I'm using blinkid-react-native 5.17.0 and I couldn't find a way to close the camera programatically. Is there any way to do it?

I would like to call something like BlinkIDReactNative.BlinkID.closeCamera()

[somyaguptagit]

Hello @feardarkness,

Thank you for reaching out!

Just to keep you informed, that we do not have exact solution in React-Native to close the camera programmatically, but you can customize our Java wrapper since it is an open-source.

I suggest that you fork the repository and make the change in the following file:
BlinkID/src/android/src/main/java/com/microblink/reactnative/MicroblinkModule.java

In line 76, you can add a handler which, after 10 seconds, closes the scanning activity:

(new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper())).postDelayed(new Runnable() {
@OverRide
public void run() {
getCurrentActivity().finishActivity(REQUEST_CODE);
}
}, 10000);

Let us know if you find this helpful.

[feardarkness]

Hi @somyaguptagit, thank you for the answer. I will test it tomorrow, but, what can I do on IOS?

[somyaguptagit]

Hello @feardarkness,
Thank you for your response!

We will look into how can we implement it on iOS from our end and reach out once we we have gathered more information.

[mparadina]

Hi @feardarkness

Allow me to jump in.

You can, for instance, add an NSTimer in the MBBlinkIDModule.m in the path:
.../node_modules/blinkid-react-native/src/ios/MicroblinkModule/MicroblinkModule/MBBlinkIDModule.m

Below line 99, you can add:

NSTimer *timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:10 repeats:NO block:^(NSTimer * _Nonnull timer) {
        [rootViewController dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}];

This will close the scanning controller in 10 seconds.
Please test it out and let me know if it helps.