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natario1/CameraView

📸 A well documented, high-level Android interface that makes capturing pictures and videos easy, addressing all of the common issues and needs. Real-time filters, gestures, watermarks, frame processing, RAW, output of any size. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/natario1/CameraView · homepage · Java · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3333
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 729
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

5125 stars · 982 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

CameraView is a well-documented, high-level Android library that simplifies capturing pictures and videos, wrapping Camera1 and Camera2 APIs behind a single easy interface. It offers real-time filters, gestures, watermarks, frame processing, RAW output, and flexible preview sizing, powered by an OpenGL preview pipeline.

Use cases

  • capture photos and videos in an Android app without dealing with Camera2 complexity
  • add real-time filters to a camera preview
  • overlay watermarks or animated overlays on captured media
  • process camera frames in real time for computer vision
  • take RAW pictures on Android
  • embed a camera preview of any size in a layout
  • control flash, zoom, exposure, white balance, and HDR

When to choose

  • you need camera capture on Android with minimal boilerplate and broad API-level support (down to API 15)
  • you want built-in features like filters, gestures, watermarks, and frame processing
  • you need both Camera1 and Camera2 engine support with a unified API
  • you want a well-documented, well-tested camera library

When to avoid

  • you are building for iOS, desktop, or web platforms
  • you need advanced video transcoding or compression (use the companion Transcoder library instead)
  • you need Jetpack Compose-first camera APIs (consider CameraX instead)
  • you need active feature development, as the project appears to be in maintenance mode

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

image-processing video-processing computer-vision mobile-development android-tools media photography jvm camera camera2 camera-preview real-time-filters opengl watermarks frame-processing raw-image video-capture picture-capture gestures android mobile

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Member repositories

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