Building Camera apps in Flutter

1. Building Camera apps in Flutter Divyanshu Bhargava @divyanshub024, HighLevel
2. Who am I?
3. Apps using camera feature • Social Media • Games • Utility • Ecommerce • Photo Editing
4. How camera works?
5. How camera works?
7. What options we have to build the camera app in Flutter?
8. Hours Months
9. Hours Months Intents
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12. Hours Months Intents • Easy & quick • Low Risk • Not Customizable • Limited Functionality • Bad UX
13. Hours Months Native • Highly Customizable • Great UX • Hard to build • Requires lots of dev resources • High risk of failure
14. Hours Months Camera Plugin
15. Hours Months Camera Plugin
16. Capturing Images using Camera Plugin
17. Getting a list of available cameras
18. Initializing camera controller
19. Previewing Camera
20. Switching b/w Front & Back Camera
21. Capturing an Image
22. Recording videos using Camera Plugin
23. Start video recording
24. Stop video recording
25. Hours Months Camera Plugin • Great UX • Custom Experience in min Time • Somewhat Customizable • Good support from community • Longer time to debug issues • Hard to build the best camera experience • Still in beta
26. Disclaimer
27. Upcoming Features • Support Android Camera 16+ • Support iOS Camera 8.0+ • Camera Orientation Control • Video/Preview/Picture output sizes • Android Pause and Resume video recording (MediaRecorder) • Zoom Control & Flash • Automatic Exposure • Permission Handling (Camera/Audio) • Auto Focus • Memory Leak • Expand Controls over video and image formats
28. References • Exploring the Flutter camera plugin - Level Up Coding • https://pub.dev/packages/camera • https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/31225
29. Thank you Divyanshu Bhargava @divyanshub024, HighLevel