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expo-face-detector
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expo-face-detector
Lets you use the power of Google Mobile Vision (https://developers.google.com/vision/face-detection-concepts) framework to detect faces on images.
expo-face-detector
Lets you use the power of MLKit (https://firebase.google.com/docs/ml-kit/detect-faces) framework to detect faces on images.
API documentation
Installation in managed Expo projects
For managed Expo projects, please follow the installation instructions in the API documentation for the latest stable release.
Installation in bare React Native projects
For bare React Native projects, you must ensure that you have installed and configured the expo package before continuing.
Add the package to your npm dependencies
npx expo install expo-face-detector
Configure for Android
No additional set up necessary.
Configure for iOS
Run npx pod-install after installing the npm package.
Contributing
Contributions are very welcome! Please refer to guidelines described in the contributing guide.
FAQs
Lets you use the power of Google Mobile Vision (https://developers.google.com/vision/face-detection-concepts) framework to detect faces on images.
The npm package expo-face-detector receives a total of 1,577 weekly downloads. As such, expo-face-detector popularity was classified as popular.
We found that expo-face-detector demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 33 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 10 Jan 2025
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