Getting Frames of Live camera footage as Bitmaps in Android using Camera2 API Kotlin

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Note: we will be using Kotlin in this story for Java click here.You can also watch video lecture of story here on youtube

There are always some things that we think are difficult to understand but in reality, we are not looking at those things from the right angle.

One such thing for Android developers is to display live camera footage inside their applications and getting frames of live footage one by one and using them for particular purposes like passing them to machine learning models and stuff like that.

So here I will teach you to add that live camera footage in your application in a really simple way.

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