droidcon SF 2017 - Building Camera Apps on Android Today

Praveen Chekuri, Houseparty

It’s becoming increasingly important to craft smooth camera experiences for your Android apps. Everything from social to shopping apps leverage the camera for essential use cases. The numerous camera hardware/software specifications make it a huge challenge to develop camera apps even with the support of the Camera 2 API which is verbose and somewhat complex. In this talk we will start by going through an example of a custom photo/video camera using the Camera 2 API. We will cover everything from best practices, 3rd party libs to often overlooked edge cases while using the API. Finally, we will talk about further customizing the experience using face detection, adding overlays, filters and more advanced features. You will walk out of this talk armed with basics of building a great camera experience for your app.

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droidcon SF is an event where the American and International Android development community comes together to share what’s new in Android and what they’ve been working on. Our goal is to serve the community and move the Android platform forward.

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droidcon is the largest global network of developer conferences which bring together the industry's foremost experts dedicated to advancing the Android platform. droidcon engages a global network of over 25,000 developers attending our events in 26 countries.