Summary

As you can see, there are myriad reasons that we might want to build our own camera-based application rather than just utilizing the built-in application in our own app. The sky is the limit with what you can accomplish, from simply creating an application that takes a picture after a countdown to building your own time-lapse system and more.

Moving forward, we'll look at what we can do with these images now that they are captured.

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