CameraX

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CameraX - Behavior Components, Easily add camera capabilities to your apps

Android Jetpack includes CameraX support library, it will make camera app development easier. it has easy-to-use API surface that works across most Android devices from Android 5.0 (API level 21) to higher versions.

CameraX support library resolves device compatibility issues, so that no need to write device specific code when adding camera capabilities to your app. A simpler, use case-based approach that is life cycle aware.

CameraX interface provides access to device camera through an abstraction called a use case. The below are the available use cases.

Use Case	Description
Preview	prepares a preview SurfaceTexture
Image analysis	provides CPU-accessible buffers for analysis, such as for machine learning
Image capture	captures and saves a photo

concurrent use cases can be used at a time, in app user view the image that the camera sees with preview use case and have an image analysis use case, and image capture use case to take a picture.

CameraX minimum version requirements:

• Android API level 21
• Android Architecture Components 1.1.1

use FragmentActivity or AppCompatActivity for lifecycle-aware activities