Getting Started

Let's install and set up React Native View Recorder in your project.

Installation

Install the library

npx expo install react-native-view-recorder

bun add react-native-view-recorder

npm install react-native-view-recorder

yarn add react-native-view-recorder

pnpm add react-native-view-recorder

Rebuild your dev client

npx expo run:ios
npx expo run:android

Expo Go does not include custom native modules. You need a development build (Expo Dev Client or bare React Native).

Peer dependencies

Package	Version	Required
react	>= 18	Yes
react-native	>= 0.73	Yes
expo	>= 54.0.0	Optional

Overview

React Native library for recording any view to video, with native hardware-accelerated encoding pipelines on iOS and Android. Supports Skia and programmatic audio mixing.

Basic Example

Record your first view to MP4 in under 5 minutes

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Install the library

Rebuild your dev client

Peer dependencies