# 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.

Repository: https://github.com/natario1/CameraView
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cameraview
Homepage: https://natario1.github.io/CameraView
Language: Java
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: android, camera, camera-api, high-level, android-library, opengl, camera-control, capture-video, picture, camera-preview, cameraview, camera2-api, camera2, watermarks, frame-processing, real-time-filter, filters, realtime-filter, raw, raw-image
Last push: 2024-09-03T20:56:02+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": 3333, "days_push": 729, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5125, forks 982 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:10.943815+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, video-processing, computer-vision
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, media, photography
- platform: jvm
- tags: camera, camera2, camera-preview, real-time-filters, opengl, watermarks, frame-processing, raw-image, video-capture, picture-capture, gestures, android, mobile

## Member repositories
- natario1/CameraView (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:10.943815+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 2026-08-29T18:02:04.305018+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/natario1/CameraView (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:10.943815+00:00, sha 0f3267b7bcc1)
  - homepage: https://natario1.github.io/CameraView (fetched 2026-08-29T08:56:37.974635+00:00, sha cb1444f2dcc6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.