HiddenCamera VS CameraView

Compare HiddenCamera vs CameraView and see what are their differences.

HiddenCamera

📸 A library that allows you to capture images in background without displaying UI. (by CottaCush)

CameraView

📸 A well documented, high-level Android interface that makes capturing pictures and videos easy, addressing all of the common issues and needs. Real-time filters, gestures, watermarks, frame processing, RAW, output of any size. (by natario1)
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HiddenCamera CameraView
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123 4,840
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0.0 1.5
over 2 years ago about 2 months ago
Kotlin Java
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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HiddenCamera

Posts with mentions or reviews of HiddenCamera. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

CameraView

Posts with mentions or reviews of CameraView. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-24.
  • CameraX vs Camera2 (library development)
    4 projects | /r/androiddev | 24 Feb 2023
    ..and a few wrappers around Camera2, such as CameraView and camerakit-android (this one even uses C++ for rendering the Preview, that's interesting for me since I want to draw on the Surface using Skia C++!).
  • Camera X, Camera 2 or something else?
    4 projects | /r/androiddev | 12 Mar 2021
    i looked into camera2 but am struggling to find any good resources on it. i've come across a few people suggesting a third party library, CameraView - https://github.com/natario1/CameraView

What are some alternatives?

When comparing HiddenCamera and CameraView you can also consider the following projects:

RootEncoder - RootEncoder for Android (rtmp-rtsp-stream-client-java) is a stream encoder to push video/audio to media servers using protocols RTMP, RTSP, SRT and UDP with all code written in Java/Kotlin

Instagram ImagePicker - Instagram like Image Picker for Android

Pix (WhatsApp Style Image Picker) - Pix is a Whatsapp image picker replica. with this, you can integrate an image picker just like WhatsApp.

MLKit-Barcode-Scanner-Sample - A Basic app which uses Google's ML Kit library to check for any QR or Barcodes

Heart-Rate-Ometer - Measures human heart rate using camera and flash light.

motioncam - Motion Cam is a camera application for Android that replaces the entire camera pipeline. It consumes RAW images and uses computational photography to combine multiple images to reduce noise.

Fotoapparat - Making Camera for Android more friendly. 📸

LiveEdgeDetection - LiveEdgeDetection is an Android document detection library built on top of OpenCV. It scans documents from camera live mode and allows you to adjust crop using the detected 4 edges and performs perspective transformation of the cropped image. It works best with a dark background.

MagicalCamera - A library to take picture easy, transform your data in different format and save photos in your device

Camera - 📸 Use Android camera to take pictures and videos, based on `camera2` api.

ImagePicker - Android library to choose image from gallery or camera with option to compress result image

camera-samples - Multiple samples showing the best practices in camera APIs on Android.