Advanced Camera SDK

Banuba’s real-time Video Camera SDK for Android and iOS expands the capabilities of a device's inbuilt camera. It adds AI-powered face tracking, beauty filters, virtual backgrounds, and other AR features to help your app's users create amazing content. Camera SDK is compatible with native Android and iOS, as well as Flutter and React Native, which means it can be integrated with your app quickly and hassle-free.

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Requirements

Key Features of
Banuba's Camera SDK

Banuba Video Editor SDK/API’s core capabilities enhance user experience and inspire stunning video creation. Minutes of integration deliver years’ worth of advanced features.

AI Clipping

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Real-time AI processing that automatically slices, stitches, and syncs multiple videos to the beat of the background track. This is one of the few commercially available options to get it for your app. Learn more.

Picture-in-picture

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This feature lets your users play one video together with another on the same screen. A must-have editing enhancements for popular content formats like reactions, tutorials, or collaborations. Multiple layout options available.

Virtual backgrounds

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Replace everything but the person in the video – no physical green screen required. The users can choose preexisting high-quality backgrounds or choose one from their library.

Use Weatherman mode to give users the freedom to place themselves anywhere on the screen.

Beauty effects

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Subtle modifications to address skin imperfections and camera distortions. Banuba’s AR & beautification engine helps users look polished on camera in just a few clicks.

Facial feature editing

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Let users change their faces for cosmetic or comical purposes.

Face AR Masks

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High-quality 3D and 2D effects that apply to the face. They can either improve privacy or add a degree of fun to a video.

Built for Performance. Designed for Developers.

1. Fast integration with a developer-first experience in mind: plug-and-play setup with detailed documentation and supportive community;
2. Launch your app 2x faster with no fuss building face tracking or AR effects from scratch;
3. Robust face detection & tracking – with 3,308 facial vertices and multi-face tracking, the SDK works at up to 7 meters distance, supports -90° to +90° angles, and operates with up to 70% of face occlusion;
4. Optimized for performance even on low- and mid-tier devices due to compressed neural networks and dynamic CPU/GPU balancing.

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Camera SDK Features

Must-have functionalities and nice-to-have additions.

Hands-Free Mode

Zoom, Exposition

Background Music Browser

Flash/Torch

Video Recording

Picture-In-Picture

Weatherman mode

AI Clipping

Templates

Slide-Show from Photos

Trimming & Concatenation

Splitting

Aspect Ratios

Editing Timeline

Voice Recording

Royalty-Free Music

Drafts

Music provider integration

25 Color Filters / LUTs

Transitions

Text Captions

GifYou API Integration

Voice Effects

AR masks

Face AR API Integration

Client: Uhive

Use case: Social Media Platform

Results: A UK-based innovative social media platform Uhive elevated in-app content creation and user engagement upon integrating Banuba’s Camera SDK for mobile apps:

Enabled a full-fledged video editing suite within an app;
Provided users with high-quality AR and beautification effects;
Integrated royalty-free music for richer, more expressive content

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Client: Weat

Use case: Video-based Social Commerce Platform

Results: Banuba helped a US-based TikTok-like app for food enthusiasts launch faster through integrating their full-scope real-time Video SDK; Weat is now planning to expand on Android.

Reduced 50% of development time and efforts;
High ranks and positive reviews from users;
5K+ downloads with little marketing and promotion.

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Client: Videoshop

Use case: Video Editing Application

Results: US-based Videoshop app enhanced its core video editing features through integrating Banuba’s Camera SDK for mobile apps to improve the content creation experience.

20M+ app downloads;
Improved ratings with 4.6/5 on PlayMarket and 4.9/5 on AppStore;
Added features of virtual backgrounds, 3D masks, interactive effects, and face touch-ups.

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Client: House of Rock

Use case: Social Media Platform

Results: A US-based startup for travel enthusiasts leverages Banuba’s tandem of Video Editor SDK and Face AR SDK to cut time to market and enhance user experience.

AR and video editing effects for content creation;
Positive user feedback shortly after the launch;
Drastically reduced development time.

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Client: Chingari

Use case: Video-sharing Social Network

Results: Chingari integrated Banuba’s Camera SDK to cover all content creation functionality and replace the banned TikTok in India.

30M+ app downloads;
Attracted $88M in funding in the first three months;
Uniquely Indianised AR filters;
1.5 hours of daily session time;
4.5/5 ratings on App Store and Google Play.

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Client: Jalsa

Use case: Video-based Social App

Results: Jalsa integrated Banuba’s real-time Camera SDK to enhance video creation and inspire younger audiences.

Built-in mobile video editor for 15-second videos;
AR filter and editing in live-mode and post-processing;
Intuitive interface and easy-to-use editing features.

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Why Banuba's Camera SDK?

Video Editor SDK usually takes less than 1 hr to integrate. Developing similar features would take years.

Everything your users need to create content and share it on social media.

High speed and low battery drain on both low- and high-end devices.

Technical Requirements

These apply to native versions, as well as Flutter and React Native SDKs.

iOS

iOS 15.0+
Swift 5.9+
Xcode 16+
Android

Kotlin 2.1+/Java 17
Android OS 8.0+ with Camera 2 API
OpenGL ES 3.0 (3.1 for Neural networks on GPU)

While tools like Canon or OptiTrack are built for hardware and studio environments, Banuba is tailored for mobile content creation apps. It comes with real-time AR rendering, face filters, beautification, and background effects ready to go.

Optimized for both high-end and low-range mobile devices, Banuba’s Camera SDK runs smoothly without draining the battery. It delivers consistent performance in real-time even in low light or with face occlusion.

Unlike in-house development that takes months, Banuba’s SDK integrates in under an hour. Teams save thousands in engineering hours by using a fully packaged toolkit that includes camera control, editing, and AR out of the box.

A camera SDK (software development kit) is an off-the-shelf software piece that can be quickly integrated with an app and perform certain camera-related functions. They can include augmented reality, virtual backgrounds, face touch-up, etc. Camera SDK integration usually takes only a few hours compared to months needed to develop similar features from scratch.
Banuba’s Camera SDK is a software layer between an app and the device. It lets users capture video, apply AR effects and filters during or after recording, trim, merge, overlay filters, and export: all within a unified mobile-first workflow. The SDK handles video processing, rendering, editing, and file output, allowing developers to focus on the experience, not the infrastructure.
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Banuba’s cross-platform camera SDK is available via CocoaPods (iOS), Maven (Android), and wrappers for Flutter and React Native. Just follow the step-by-step guides to integrate it into your project:
- iOS
- Android
- Flutter (Flutter plugin is here);
- React Native (RN plugin is here).
Native camera APIs give you access to basic functions (recording, focus, flash). Banuba’s camera SDK goes much further. It offers features such as AR filters, beautification, trimming, audio sync, and background replacement. All of this is cross-platform, so you don’t have to stitch together multiple libraries.
Banuba’s camera SDK for mobile apps comes with everything you need to build a modern, content-focused video experience. Out of the box, it includes:
- Camera preview & video/photo capture;
- Real-time multiple face tracking and beautification;
- AR filters, 3D/2D masks, and background replacement;
- Picture-in-picture & weatherman mode;
- Trimming, merging, and soundtrack sync;
- Support for custom effects, LUTs, and voice filters.

Advanced Camera SDK