What is the difference between an ImageView and ImageProxy in Android Studio?

Question

I am new to android studio and wondered if anyone could clear this up for me. Many thanks.

Answer 1

The ImageView is actually a View, that:

Displays image resources, for example, a Bitmap or Drawable resources. ImageView is also commonly used to apply tints to an image and handle image scaling.

While ImageProxy:

An image proxy which has a similar interface as Image.

Besides that, there is another interface named PlaneProxy, which is a:

A plane proxy which has an analogous interface as Image.Plane.

There are two quite different concepts. An ImageProxy can be converted to a Bitmap, as it ca be captured from the camera.