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Google at its 2019 I/O introduced CameraX, a camera library as part of the Jetpack support library. With CameraX, the developers can spend less time writing the logic to set up the preview to analyze the preview or capture an image and more on time business logic. CameraX is built to simplify three use cases when building a camera application. These are showing a preview, taking a picture and analyzing the image. In addition to that, CameraX provides what is called CameraX Extensions, which enables the developers to take advantage of the device-specific and vendor-specific effects like bokeh, HDR, Night, Beauty mode. With this, the features of the native camera application on the device can be easily extended to our application. A temporary disadvantage is that the CameraX is available for the devices running API 21 (Lollipop or Android 5.0) and higher. This is because of its heavy use of Camera2 API's. In this article, we will take a look at how to show camera