Android Top Camera Libraries

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This blog will help you in knowing about the Android top camera libraries.

CameraX

CameraX is a camera library by Google. In Google IO 2019, Google added another powerful tool for camera development in Android development called CameraX as part of Jetpack. It is backward compatible till Android 5.0 / Lollipop (API 21) and it works with at least 90% of devices in the market.

CameraView

CameraView aims to help Android developers easily integrate Camera features.

Features

• Camera preview by placing it in a layout XML (and calling the start method)
• Configuration by attributes
• Aspect ratio (app:aspectRatio)
• Auto-focus (app:autoFocus)
• Flash (app:flash)

CameraKit-Android

CameraKit takes one of the hardest Android APIs and makes it into a high level and easy to use the library that solves all of your problems.

With CameraKit you are able to seamlessly do the following…

• Image and video capture seamlessly working with the same preview session.
• Automatic system permission handling.
• Automatic preview scaling.
• Create a CameraView of any size (not just presets!).
• Automatic output cropping to match your CameraView bounds.
• Multiple capture methods.
• METHOD_STANDARD: an image captured normally using the camera APIs.
• METHOD_STILL: a freeze frame of the CameraView preview (similar to SnapChat and Instagram) for devices with slower cameras.
• METHOD_SPEED: automatic capture method determination based on measured speed.
• Built-in continuous focus.
• Built-in tap to focus.
• Built-in pinch to zoom.

Fotoapparat

Camera API in Android is hard. Having 2 different API for new and old Camera does not make things any easier. After several years of working with Camera, the developer came up with this library.

What it provides:

• Camera API which does not allow you to shoot yourself in the foot.
• Simple yet powerful parameters customization.
• Standalone custom CameraView which can be integrated into any Activity.
• Fixes and workarounds for device-specific problems.
• Both Kotlin and Java friendly configurations.

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Amit Shekhar

Co-Founder @ Outcome School

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