[pedrol2b]

Summary

This PR introduces v1.0.0, the first stable major release of react-native-vision-camera-mlkit.

⚠️ Breaking change
This is a complete rewrite / full recode of the project.
Diff stats: 21,446 additions / 13,099 deletions

The previous versions (< 0.1.0) were preview / experimental releases.
This PR marks the transition to a production-ready architecture.

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📌 Context & Motivation

This release fulfills and delivers on the roadmap described in
📣 Project Status Update — Big Update Coming Soon!
👉 #8

Development is officially resumed, and the project has been rebuilt from the ground up with a strong focus on performance, stability, maintainability, and platform parity.

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✨ What’s New in v1.0.0

🔁 Complete Project Rewrite

• Entire codebase refactored and redesigned
• Clean, modular, and scalable architecture
• Shared abstractions across plugins
• Significantly easier to maintain and extend

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⚡ Massive Performance Improvements

• Optimized native pipelines
• Reduced overhead between JS ↔ native
• Better memory management
• Faster processing for both real-time frames and static images

This release delivers way, way better performance compared to all previous versions.

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🍎 Full iOS Native Support (Swift)

• Complete iOS implementation added
• Native Swift module
• Updated ML Kit iOS pods
• Much better feature parity between Android and iOS

Previous releases were effectively Android-only — this is no longer the case.

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🧩 Selective ML Kit API Installation

• Install only what you need
• No longer required to install all ML Kit APIs by default
• Smaller app size
• Faster builds
• Cleaner dependency graph

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🧠 Shared Plugin Options & Arguments

• New shared options layer across ML Kit plugins
• Consistent API surface
• Easier cross-plugin feature reuse
• Foundation for upcoming advanced features (ROI, preprocessing, etc.)

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🖼️ Static Image Processing Support

• ML Kit processing now supports:

  • 🎥 Vision Camera frame processors
  • 🖼️ Static images

• Enables use cases beyond live camera frames

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📱 Example App — Fully Rewritten

• Example app completely rebuilt
• Reflects new APIs and best practices
• Easier to test, debug, and explore features

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🧪 ML Kit Plugin Status (Current Release)

✅ Implemented

• Text Recognition

⏳ Coming Next

• Face Detection
• Object Detection + Tracking
• Pose Detection
• Digital Ink Recognition
• Remaining ML Kit APIs

These will land in upcoming releases.

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🔮 Upcoming Features (Already Planned)

🎯 Region of Interest (ROI) — Shared Feature

regionOfInterest: {
  x: number,
  y: number,
  width: number,
  height: number
}

Description

• Focus ML processing on a specific area of the image/frame
• Coordinates are normalized (0–1)

Why this matters

• 🚀 Performance: Skip irrelevant regions
• 🎯 Accuracy: Focus detection where it matters
• 🧠 Shared logic across all ML Kit plugins

Example

useTextRecognition({
  regionOfInterest: { x: 0.2, y: 0.3, width: 0.6, height: 0.4 }
})

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🔗 Compatibility

This package depends on:

Package	Version
react-native-vision-camera	>= 4.0.1
react-native-worklets-core	>= 1.2.0

The goal is to:

• Support the latest versions
• Maintain a compatibility matrix so users can safely mix versions

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🏁 Summary

• ✅ First stable major release
• 🔥 Complete rewrite
• ⚡ Major performance gains
• 🍎 Full iOS support
• 🧩 Modular & selective ML Kit APIs
• 🖼️ Static image processing
• 📱 Rebuilt example app
• 🚧 More ML Kit features coming soon

This PR lays the foundation for all future development.

Thanks to everyone who supported the project — more updates are on the way! ❤️

[pedrol2b]

Yeah—checks are failing due to build-ios.yml. This is a workflow implementation issue, not an actual iOS build problem. I’ll merge this PR and fix the workflow afterward.