Full Camera Control in .NET MAUI: Flash, Zoom, Torch and Recording | Community Feed

Rather than hand users off to an external camera app, the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit’s CameraView lets you own the whole capture experience. Héctor Pérez demonstrates how to wire it up end to end using MVVM.

What you’ll learn

Getting set up — installing CommunityToolkit.Maui.Camera and CommunityToolkit.Mvvm, and registering the toolkit in MauiProgram.cs
Platform permissions — enabling Camera and Microphone permissions on Android (and where to configure iOS)
An MVVM view model — exposing properties for status, selected camera, zoom, torch, recording state, and the latest photo/video paths
Building the UI — binding CameraView properties like flash mode, torch, selected camera, and zoom factor in XAML
Capturing media — implementing photo capture with CaptureImage, plus start/stop video recording and saving files via streams
Handling failures — subscribing to MediaCaptureFailed and cleaning up on page disappearance

Watch the full video to see the control tested live on a physical device, capturing photos, recording video, zooming, and toggling the torch.