React Native Camera Showing Blank Screen
Why you might be getting a blank screen error with react-native-camera or expo-camera
When using the package expo-camera or react-native-camera, you may encounter a blank screen with no error message showing.
Make sure that you are importing the permissions module from React Native and requesting access to a user's camera like this:
import { Permissions } from 'react-native';
If you forget to do it, nothing will work and you won't know why.
If you find this blog post and it solves your problem, congratulations, you are as dumb as I am! 😁
I spent about an hour before I realized what was wrong, so I thought I'd make a quick post in case anyone else ever does the same thing.
Have a great day!