Allow camera view

[mankoff]

Describe the solution you'd like

I hoped this would let me use the camera (preview) with the light active. Can this feature be added?

[TacoTheDank]

I don't think so, because flashlight is a camera feature. If you look here: https://github.com/kb-1000/android-torchlight/blob/master/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml#L10

You see that the app declares both CAMERA and FLASHLIGHT.

If you look here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48553060

Apparently apps can sometimes crash if they don't declare CAMERA with FLASHLIGHT together (probably applies to certain devices).

And if you look here: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/camera.html#release-camera

You see that cameras cannot be used at the same time by multiple apps.

As the flashlight is inherently part of the camera per the system specifications, another app cannot also use the camera as well.