Building a PhotoCamera App

This section looks at using the PhotoCamera to create a custom camera app that allows the user to view live video from the camera and to take still image captures that are saved to the phone’s media library. You look at performing post-processing of the PhotoCamera’s preview buffer to create a live video effect. In addition, this section looks at extending the app to provide a page that includes a list of photo thumbnails that link to images saved in the media library images.

The sample code for this section resides in the /Sensors/Camera directory of the WPUnleashed.Examples project in the downloadable sample code.

The section begins with the custom PhotoCameraViewModel class, which contains a Start and a Stop method ...

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