# google/cameraview

[DEPRECATED] Easily integrate Camera features into your Android app

Repository: https://github.com/google/cameraview
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/google-cameraview
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: android, camera
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-02-08T13:20:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3681, "days_push": 2398, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4705, forks 1011 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:57.260638+00:00)

## What it is
A deprecated Android UI library that wraps Camera1 and Camera2 APIs into a single easy-to-use CameraView widget for layouts. It is no longer maintained and Google recommends Jetpack CameraX instead.

## Use cases
- add camera preview to an android app
- capture photos with a simple camera widget
- configure camera flash and autofocus in xml
- support both old and new android camera apis
- build a custom camera screen in android

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Android app already using CameraView
- targeting very old API levels (9-20) that CameraX does not support

## When to avoid
- starting any new Android project
- needing maintained camera features or bug fixes
- targeting modern Android versions

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, image-processing
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, photography
- platform: jvm
- tags: camera, deprecated, camera-preview, camera2, android-library, android

## Member repositories
- google/cameraview (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:57.260638+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 2026-08-29T18:19:11.187384+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/google/cameraview (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:57.260638+00:00, sha a447ab2bade9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.