# omergul/LLSimpleCamera

A simple, customizable camera control - video recorder for iOS.

Repository: https://github.com/omergul/LLSimpleCamera
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/llsimplecamera
Language: Objective-C
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2017-12-15T10:45:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4306, "days_push": 3183, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1202, forks 192 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:58.444022+00:00)

## What it is
LLSimpleCamera is an Objective-C iOS library that provides a simple, customizable camera and video recorder control that can be embedded in any view controller, similar to Snapchat's camera UI. It abstracts AVFoundation details like camera position, flash, zoom, and white balance while exposing easy photo capture and video recording APIs.

## Use cases
- build a snapchat-style custom camera screen in an iOS app
- capture photos with a customizable camera view controller
- record videos from within an embedded camera view
- toggle front/rear camera and flash in an iOS app
- embed a camera preview inside an existing view controller

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, embeddable camera control on iOS with fine-grained customization
- you want to avoid presenting a full-screen modal camera like UIImagePickerController
- you're maintaining or extending an older Objective-C iOS codebase

## When to avoid
- you're starting a new project - the library hasn't been updated since 2017 and lacks Swift-first support
- you need modern camera features like advanced filters or ARKit integration
- you want a maintained library with active community support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, image-processing, video-processing
- domain: mobile-development, media, photography
- platform: -
- tags: camera, objective-c, video-recording, avfoundation, snapchat-style, ios, mobile, swift

## Member repositories
- omergul/LLSimpleCamera (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:58.444022+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 2026-08-30T06:20:37.256740+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/omergul/LLSimpleCamera (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:58.444022+00:00, sha f07b5a233d5c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.