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Wrapping Apple's LiDAR Room Scanner as a Native Expo Module

DEV Community: expo·Todd Sullivan·3 days ago
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Most property and field-service apps still ask users to manually enter room dimensions. Tape measure, pen, back to the app, mistype, repeat. It's tedious and it's lossy. I've been building a property inspection app and this week I shipped a feature that replaces manual floor-area entry with a LiDAR scan. Walk around a room for 30 seconds, hit Done — the app returns floor area, wall count, door count, window dimensions, and a confidence score for each surface. No internet connection required. No server round-trips. All on-device. Here's how I wired Apple's RoomPlan framework into a React Native / Expo app as a native module. The Basic Idea Apple's RoomPlan framework uses the LiDAR sensor on iPhone 12 Pro and later to build a structured 3D model of a room in real time. It gives you back typed objects: floors, walls, doors, windows — each with dimensions and a confidence rating ( high , medium , low ). The challenge is surfacing this in a cross-platform Expo app without hacking around the JS/native boundary.…

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