Capturing camera feed .net maui

Question

I'm new to Xamarin and Maui, I've been working on an app and now I need a way to access the camera feed.

I want to be able to preview the camera, for android first, within the app and capture an image when a buton is pressed. I have it working with the native camera app (media selector) but this isn't what would fulfil my requirements.

I've been trying to use handlers with Android camera X to get a preview view on the layout but I just can't crack it, there's hardly any direction on building one from the ground up. Does anyone have any experience with this that might be able to point me in the right direction?

user_16331993 · Answer

You can try to use .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) IMediaPicker interface. This interfaces lets a user pick or take a photo or video on the device。

To get photo, use code like:

FileResult photo = await MediaPicker.Default.CapturePhotoAsync();

user_14386474 · Answer

ANSWER: I ended up creating a custom handler for maui and building my own view using native android. Built the view using xamarin in c#. Then used an interface to call back to the handler that an image had been taken.

Capturing camera feed .net maui

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