A simple camera application built to run on Windows or Android. The GUI is created with Kivy, communication with the camera is accomplished with OpenCV and Python. The Android app is built with buildozer.
This is more of a proof of work concept demo than an actual camera application intended to be used as a daily driver.
Note: Taken images are being stored in the Downloads folder.
| Milestone | Status |
|---|---|
| Create Github repo | ✅ |
| Add basic camera feed | ✅ |
| Build the app with Buildozer | ✅ |
| Create a basic GUI and preview viewfinder | ✅ |
| Add a button to switch between camera lenses | ✅ |
| Add a settings page with some options like JPEG quality, and so on | |
| Try out direct API calls from Python to Android | ❌ |
| Add Github workflow to build new APKs | ✅ |
| Add Github workflow to sign build APKs | ❌ |
| Add Github workflow to publish APK to release page | ✅ |
Legend:
✅ finished
| Folder | Description |
|---|---|
| source | Contains the Python source code |
| recipes | Contains the modified OpenCV recipe to build the latest OpenCV version (current 4.7.0) for Arm64 |
| buildozer.spec | Contains the configurations for buildozer for creating the Android APK |
- Ultrawide camera lenses are producing a black image in the viewfinder and no image is saved if the shutter button is pressed under this scenario.
- After switching between more than two camera lenses, the viewfinder becomes slow
- The first App launch crashes after granting the permissions. Start the App again and it will work as intended afterwards.
https://github.com/opencv/opencv
Special thanks to Giles Payne (https://github.com/komakai) for his help getting OpenCV to run on Android.
Install Buildozer
pip install -r requirements.txt
If you want to build the Apk yourself, navigate with the terminal into the root of this repository and execute
buildozer -v android debug