Camposer: Jetpack Compose camera library for Android

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Tired to use a camera library with interoperability using Jetpack Compose? so Camposer was made for you, a camera library only using Jetpack Compose.

This story will guide you on how to implement Camposer into your project, so let’s start!

https://github.com/ujizin/Camposer/tree/main/camposer

Setup

First, you need to add a dependency, with the latest version, to your build.gradle (module):

dependencies {
  implementation("io.github.ujizin:camposer:<version>")
}

How it works

Let’s begin using CameraPreview to display on UI.

Camera preview

• CameraPreview is the composable function to display the camera preview.
• CameraState is not required for preview, but it’s necessary for action as taking a picture, recording videos, and for internal states (flash & image analyzer)

Switch Cameras

To switch cameras, use CamSelector.Back or CamSelector.Front, and it can be used with a state like the below example:

Switch camera

Taking pictures

for this, you’ll just need to use CameraState and call takePicture method from it, like the example below:

CaptureMode Image

Recording Video

It’s very similar to taking pictures. For this, you need to change the capture mode for CaptureMode.Video and call toggleRecording twice times for stop recording.

ps: you can use startRecording and stopRecording separately.

CaptureMode video

Other Configurations

There are a lot of other configurations on Camposer, if you want to use some of them check out the Camposer Wiki for more information!

Camposer Wiki

And that’s all folks!

Check out the sample projects (including this from the story).

Camera-compose: Camera using Jetpack Compose with no interoperability (Camposer) 📸

Camposer sample · ujizin/Camposer

Have a fun code()!