CameraKit takes one of the hardest Android APIs and makes it into a high level and easy to use 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.

Setup

Add CameraKit to the dependencies block in your app level build.gradle:

compile 'com.wonderkiln:camerakit:0.13.1'

Usage

To use CameraKit, simply add a CameraView to your layout:

<com.wonderkiln.camerakit.CameraView
    android:id="@+id/camera"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:adjustViewBounds="true" />

Make sure you override onResume and onPause in your activity, and make calls respectively to CameraView.start() and CameraView.stop().

@Override
protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    cameraView.start();
}

@Override
protected void onPause() {
    cameraView.stop();
    super.onPause();
}

ProGuard

Starting in version 0.13.0 you need to add the following options to your Proguard rules:

-dontwarn com.google.android.gms.**

Documentation

Check out our Documentation Website for more documentation on how to use to CameraKit.

Sponsoring

Most of the core team members, CameraKit contributors and contributors in the ecosystem do this open source work in their free time. If you use CameraKit for a serious task, and you'd like us to invest more time on it, please donate. This project increases your income/productivity too. It makes development and applications faster and it reduces the required bandwidth.

This is how we use the donations: