Android deprecated android.hardware.Camera and now recommend using android.hardware.camera2 but this is not available in anything below API 21

Question

I have an application that supports back to Android API 19 (KitKat) and there is heavy Camera use internally.

Currently, android.hardware.camera2 is the recommended way of using the camera API and android.hardware.Camera is deprecated.

Is there a way to support API 19 and stop using android.hardware.Camera without getting deprecation warnings in my build? If so, how?

The only other question I could find was this but it doesn't answer my question.

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '15 at 18:46

6

you would use

if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
    //use old camera API
}else{
    //use new camera API
}

then you can support what you want

answered Jul 28 '15 at 18:46

tyczj

I was aware of this method but will this eliminate the build warnings I see from Lint in Gradle? – bjohnson Jul 28 '15 at 18:52
1

no it will not, nothing will if you want to support lower version, the only thing you can do it use `@SuppressWarnings( "deprecation" )` to suppress it – tyczj Jul 28 '15 at 18:55

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