take a picture with android ndk - camera api

Question

Is there a standarized API for taking pictures using Android NDK?

Or is it really necessary to go through Java for that?

Answer 1

In Android 7 (API 24) Google has added support for native camera access (Camera2 API).

In ndk-r12:

• Headers:

  1. $NDK_ROOT/android-24/$ARCH/usr/include/camera/Ndk*.h
  2. $NDK_ROOT/android-24/$ARCH/usr/include/media/Image*.h

• Libs:

  1. libcamera2ndk.so
  2. libmediandk.so