Make `CameraState` public about camposer HOT 4 CLOSED

Oh, got it! I don't see any issue with making this change.

I'll create a new release as soon as possible with this update. If you'd like, please feel free to open the pull request

And thanks for opening the issue!

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Perfect, thanks for your response @ujizin! I'm shamelessly going to use this thread to ask you a question that's not related to this issue. Do you know if you can use cameraX in a foreground service? :D I couldn't find anything about it on the internet and my attempts all failed. Since you seem to know a lot about cameraX, I was wondering if you know whether that is even possible :D

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To be honest, I've never seen it, but this discussion might be useful for you: https://groups.google.com/a/android.com/g/camerax-developers/c/CqPqokS4Lkk

I'll try to create a sample later. If I succeed, I'll send it to you.

ps: and don't worry about using this thread to ask questions – it's related to the topic of this thread too 😄

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That was quick, thank you very much!

Regarding CameraX in Foreground Services, it seems as if that is really not possible as camerax needs to run on the main thread, I tried running this service:

@ExperimentalVideo class VideoRecorderService: LifecycleService() {
    lateinit var cameraController: LifecycleCameraController

    private var job = SupervisorJob()
    private var scope = CoroutineScope(Dispatchers.IO + job)

    override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()

        scope.launch {
            cameraController = LifecycleCameraController(this@VideoRecorderService)

            // Hack to make sure camera is initialized
            delay(2000L)
            startRecording()
        }
    }

    fun startRecording() {
        cameraController.startRecording(
            OutputFileOptions.builder(
                File(externalCacheDir!!.absolutePath + "/video.mp4"),
            ).build(),
            ContextCompat.getMainExecutor(this),
            object: OnVideoSavedCallback {
                override fun onVideoSaved(outputFileResults: OutputFileResults) {
                    println("Video saved")
                }

                override fun onError(videoCaptureError: Int, message: String, cause: Throwable?) {
                    println("Video error")
                }
            }
        )

    }
}

but this results in the following error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not in application's main thread

I guess I'll stick to Camera2 :/

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