# CameraKit/camerakit-android

Library for Android Camera 1 and 2 APIs. Massively increase stability and reliability of photo and video capture on all Android devices.

Repository: https://github.com/CameraKit/camerakit-android
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/camerakit-android
Homepage: https://camerakit.io
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: java, captured-images, camera, camera-api, capture-video, android, android-library, ndk, c-plus-plus, performance, native
Last push: 2023-08-08T13:23:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3566, "days_push": 1121, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5387, forks 874 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:17.176328+00:00)

## What it is
CameraKit is an Android library that wraps the Camera 1 and Camera 2 APIs behind a reliable CameraView component for photo and video capture. It handles permissions, preview scaling, focus, zoom, and multiple capture methods to improve stability across Android devices.

## Use cases
- add reliable photo and video capture to an Android app
- handle camera permissions and preview scaling automatically
- capture images on devices with slow or unreliable camera APIs
- implement tap-to-focus and pinch-to-zoom in a camera preview
- build a Snapchat-style freeze-frame camera capture

## When to choose
- you need consistent camera capture behavior across many Android devices
- you want a drop-in CameraView with built-in focus, zoom, and permission handling
- your app targets older Android camera APIs and needs extra reliability

## When to avoid
- you need video capture on the latest beta release, which only supports photos
- you are building for CameraX or Jetpack Compose-first modern Android stacks
- you need a actively developed project with frequent recent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, ui-components
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, photography
- platform: jvm, cpp
- tags: camera-api, camera2, photo-capture, video-capture, android-library, native-code, camera-view, android

## Member repositories
- CameraKit/camerakit-android (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:17.176328+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:58:24.970805+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/CameraKit/camerakit-android (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:17.176328+00:00, sha c8774c48b077)
  - homepage: https://camerakit.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:45.122949+00:00, sha 74b8cdec6ce0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.