Hello Camera2

Hello Camera2 is an Android Camera2 sample that takes a snapshot using libcamera2ndk.

It uses JNI to access camera2 APIs which recently becomes one of public libraries in Android N.

This fork is a POC that back ports the native camera2 API to Marshmallow and possibly to Lollipop devices.

It runs live camera preview on 6.0.1 Nexus 5 phone, but more experimental data is needed to understand whether it is worth anything beyond a little excercsise in abusing Android system headers.

BTW, the backdoor was slammed shut in Android N, and same techniques are not relevant anymore for modern platforms.

Pre-requisites

Android Studio 2.3 with NDK bundle. To avoid hassle with old system headers, this project was built with NDK r.14b.

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Privacy Policy

This app sends nothing, shares nothing, and will never do anything beyond being an experimental playground for Android Camera API.