Android Question [CameraEx] Is this Class still being maintained?

[Cableguy]

Hi Guys,

The CameraEx Class was released in 2012, and as far as I could search/perceive, been updated up to ver 1.30 by 2016 even though the thread was last edit December 2021...

Several aditional methods have been posted to the Original thread, but not all have made it to the Class...

So, 2 questions come to mind....
Why haven't this Class never been converted to a B4X Lib?
And is this Class still being maintained? (by whom?)

A very important feature is missing (imho) that is the implementation of a Manual Focus...
I came across a few posts in that thread about some efforts to this but that never got into the class...

 

[JohnC]

Did you take a look at this - it supports manual focus and the newer CamEx2 class:

Camera2 - New camera library

Camera2 library is based on the newer Camera API introduced in Android 5 (API 21). It is therefore supported by Android 5+ devices. It requires B4A v7.3+. The library is built to work together with CamEx2 class. Camera2 native API is more complex than the old API. However together CamEx2 and...

www.b4x.com

 

[LucaMs]

NOTE: in my smartphone (Huawei Android 8), Camera2 does not work!