Working with CameraX APIs

Introduction

CameraX is part of the Jetpack Compose libraries. CameraX APIs make it easier to build apps with camera functionality, providing consistent and simple-to-use APIs that work on most Android devices. The library includes APIs that can be used to preview and capture both images and videos.

In this lesson, we’ll learn to use CameraX APIs to preview and capture images.

Setting up the library

We need to add CameraX library dependencies in the app/build.gradle file before we can use the APIs.