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How To Prefetch Lenses
Hey guys, we would like to know the best way to prefetch lenses before the camera screen is opened. Our current problem: it takes 3-7 sec for lenses to load so it is hurting the user experience. Users have to wait on the camera screen with the loading animation and nothing happening. What API can we use to make this…
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How to configure a Session to start a specific Lens (Android)
I'm having trouble finding good documentation for how to configure a Session. This sample code snippet doesn't work for me: cameraKitSession.getLenses().getRepository().get(new Available(LENS_GROUP_ID), available -> { Log.d(TAG, "Available lenses: " + available); Lenses.whenHasFirst(available, lens ->…
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Share from CameraKit to Snapchat
Hi, When sharing to Snapchat from CameraKit are we able to have an attachmentUrl like with dynamic lenses? Thanks
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Camera Kit & React Native?
Hi there :) I am not super familiar with Android studio or XCode, i do know how to make React Native apps tho. I would love to use CameraKit in React Native. Is it already doable? If yes, how? If not, will it be supported in the future? Thank you so much! :)
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Camera Preview Upside down in CameraKit. How to Rotate Camera Preview
My device settings operates with a rotated display as default which the camerakit camera picks up and rotates the camera preview accordingly. Is there a way to manually rotate the camera stream in a camera kit app?
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[Office Hour] Attend our Snap Camera Kit Office Hour #10 on Sep 21
Register for Wednesday’s Office Hour to directly ask questions & get support from the Camera Kit team. This will be hosted by our Product & Partner Engineering team and will be focused on answering all live questions and commonly asked questions to date. We invite the technical and non-technical community members to…
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[Office Hour] Attend our Snap Camera Kit Office Hour #9 on Sep 14
Register for Wednesday’s Office Hour to directly ask questions & get support from the Camera Kit team. This will be hosted by our Product & Partner Engineering team and will be focused on answering all live questions and commonly asked questions to date. We invite the technical and non-technical community members to…
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[v1.16.0] Camera Kit SDK v1.16.0 release
We have just released Camera Kit SDK v1.16.0 to Maven Central and CocoaPods. Sample apps are also hosted on the Snapchat GitHub account. List of changes in this SDK: Features * Lens Studio 4.28.x support * Support for Connected Lenses (closed beta) * iOS: Support for arm64 simulators Please check the Camera Kit docs page…
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public key format?
I'm registering developer access for Camera Kit but the public key field is not accepting my snapkit_rsa.pub file contents. ssh-keygen -t rsa -f snapkit_rsa I did a search and found that sometimes we need to enclose the key in additional markers: "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----" and corresponding END. Adding these makes the…
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[Office Hour] Attend our Snap Camera Kit Office Hour #8 on Sep 07
Register for Wednesday’s Office Hour to directly ask questions & get support from the Camera Kit team. This will be hosted by our Product & Partner Engineering team and will be focused on answering all live questions and commonly asked questions to date. We invite the technical and non-technical community members to…
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Can we customise the Terms and Conditions modal?
Hi. Is it possible to customise the text used for the T&Cs for our Camera Kit app? In particular, not linking out to the standard Snap Terms of Service? We don't think this really applies because we aren't using any of the platform's services apart from retrieving the lenses and fear that the part 3 (Rights You Grant Us)…
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[Important Update] Submit for Snap Kit App Review Required
We hope you are enjoying developing with Camera Kit and delivering AR experiences to your users. As a reminder, Snap reviews all apps that seek to integrate with Snap Kit prior to enabling integration for public use. After adding an app in the Snap Kit Developer Portal and testing your application in developer mode, you…
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[Office Hour] Attend our Snap Camera Kit Office Hour #5 on Aug 17
Register for Wednesday’s Office Hour to directly ask questions & get support from the Camera Kit team. This will be hosted by our Product & Partner Engineering team and will be focused on answering all live questions and commonly asked questions to date. We invite the technical and non-technical community members to…
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[Camera Kit] New Features: Inclusive Camera for SDK 1.14.1 and above
We are incredibly excited to share that we now have support for our first Inclusive Camera features in Camera Kit. We announced our initiative for creating a more Inclusive Camera for Snapchat in 2021, which aims to improve the camera so that every person regardless of skin tone, culture, or ability can take a great…
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Camera Kit - Terms and Conditions Modal
Hi, I have a quick question I was hoping you could provide some clarity on: based on a quick reading of the documentation seems to suggest that when integrating Camera Kit there would be a mandatory pop up on launching the camera that reads: “By using Lenses, you acknowledge reading Snap’s Privacy Policy and agree to…
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[Office Hour] Attend our Snap Camera Kit Office Hour #4 on Aug 10
Register for Wednesday’s Office Hour to directly ask questions & get support from the Camera Kit team. This will be hosted by our Product & Partner Engineering team and will be focused on answering all live questions and commonly asked questions to date. We invite the technical and non-technical community members to…
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How do I know which libraries/artifacts I need in my app?
I see there are 20 different artifacts on Maven for Android - how do I know which ones I need? Do I always need the main camerakit? camerakit-api? lenses-bundle? What are the various support-* libraries for? Thanks for helping point a newbie in the right direction!
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How to pass data from app to lens
Hey! Very new to CamKit and just curious if you can point me to the part of the SDK responsible for passing data from the app to the lens similar to how dynamic lenses use launchParams. I see there’s launchParams on camkit as well but I’m looking for a more advanced way that allows us to pass for example an image or any…
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Lenses Not Showing In Our App
Hey guys, we published a few custom lenses but we can't see them in our app. In our Lens Pack dashboard, we see that each of them has a Public status. We have already been approved so our Camera Kit is up and running. Can someone please help us?
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[Office Hour] Attend our Snap Camera Kit Office Hour #3 on Jul 27
Register for this Wednesday’s Office Hour to directly ask questions & get support from our Camera Kit team. This will be hosted by our Product & Partner Engineering team and will be focused on answering all live questions and commonly asked questions to date. We invite the technical and non-technical community members to…
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Why is the "Do not publish to Snapchat" visibility setting missing?
Hello, It is mentioned on the snap documentation in the visibility settings section that there are 4 visibility settings but I have access to only 3 of them, the "Do not publish to Snapchat" setting is missing. Is there a reason for that? Thanks, Ilyes
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CameraKit - Background Effects
Is it possible to include background effects as part of the Camera Kit? We want to achieve the same sort of experience as Snapchat provides: 1. users take photos with Lenses 2. they choose the background of their liking after the photo has been taken Thanks!!
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[Camera Kit] Lens Folders - Roles and Permissions Update
We are very excited to announce that we launched roles and permissions for Lens Folders, which will make it easy for you to manage the AR content published to your organization from multiple contributors. You can manage the roles in Business Manager at business.snapchat.com under the Members section of the main dropdown.…
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Applying Lenses to Gallery Photos
Hey guys, any way to apply lenses to photos from the gallery (camera roll)?
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Adjustment sliders customisation - IOS Native App
Hi team. We’re working on CameraKit integration within our application and we’re going to use SCSDKCameraKitReferenceUI to build UI for it. We want to customise how adjustments sliders look like, but we have an issue with that. Adjustments sliders are represented by AdjustmentControlView class. We see that…
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[v1.15.1] Camera Kit SDK v1.15.1 release
We have just released new Camera Kit SDK v1.15.1 to Maven Central and CocoaPods. Sample apps are also hosted on Snapchat GitHub account. List of changes in this SDK: Features * Lens Studio 4.25 support * Android: New method to apply a lens while resetting its state if the lens was applied already. Useful for cases where…
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[Office Hour] Attend our Snap Camera Kit Office Hour #2 on Jul 20
Register for this Wednesday’s Office Hour to directly ask questions & get support from our Camera Kit team. This will be hosted by our Product & Partner Engineering team and will be focused on answering all live questions and commonly asked questions to date. We invite the technical and non-technical community members to…
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[Office Hour] Attend our Snap Camera Kit Office Hour #1 on Jul 13
We are officially kicking off our weekly Office Hours for Camera Kit developers to get answers to their questions! This will be hosted by our Product & Partner Engineering team and will be focused on answering commonly asked questions to date and your live questions in the chat. We invite the technical and non-technical…
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Update to Snap's Terms of Service Notice
We have updated to whom Snap’s Terms of Service Notice is shown. Our Terms of Service notice is now only required in the US and will not prompt outside of the US. It will only be shown to users who have not previously accepted it or who have reinstalled your app.
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[v1.14.1] Camera Kit SDK v1.14.1 release
The new Camera Kit SDK v1.14.1 is available directly from Maven Central and CocoaPods. Sample apps are now also hosted on Snapchat GitHub account. List of changes in this SDK: Features * iOS: Add standard flash along with ring light for front-facing flash to sample (On Android, Ring light was already available in 1.13.0) *…