An Android camera app for Google Pixel devices that records video using hardware AV1 encoding and saves photos as WebP — the first camera app to use the Tensor G3's dedicated AV1 encoder block. In my experience this produces equivalent images about 1/4 the size of JPEG and equivalent videos about 1/4 the size of their equivalent default H.264.
WARNING vibe coded with Claude Opus v4.6. I tried occasionally for a few years to build this app but failed without the help of Claude. Use at your own risk but I've been using the app for a while now and it works for me.
- 📸 WebP photos — lossy (quality 50–100) or lossless, saved to
DCIM/Camera/by default. - 🎬 AV1 + AAC video — hardware AV1 via
c2.google.av1.encoder, AAC audio, MP4 container - 📱 H.264/HEVC fallback — via CameraX Recorder on non-Tensor devices
- ⚙️ Manual controls — ISO, shutter, white balance, exposure compensation, focus mode
- 🎞️ Frame rate — 24 / 30 / 60 fps
- 📊 AV1 bitrate slider — 2–40 Mbps (VBR; Tensor G3 encoder supports CBR/VBR only, no CQ)
- 📐 Aspect ratio — 4:3 / 16:9
- Android API 26+ (Android 8.0)
- AV1 encoding: Pixel 8 / Tensor G3 or later
- Build: Java 21, AGP 8.3.0, Gradle 8.4
./gradlew assembleDebug
adb install -r app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk
adb shell am start -n com.boerocamera.app/.ui.MainActivitycom.boerocamera.app
Developed by John Boero. Coding architecture and implementation assistance by Claude (Anthropic), including the AV1 MediaCodec pipeline, dual-Preview viewfinder-during-recording solution, orientation hint fix, and threading model.
LGPL