8.1.1

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Added

• New aspectMode option to control how camera preview fills available space with cover (fills space, may crop) or contain (fits within space, may letterbox) modes

Fixed

• Camera preview not displaying on MIUI/Redmi devices due to transparency rendering issues
• Android camera transparency timing issues that could cause flickering during initialization
• Aspect mode not being preserved when camera session configuration is recreated

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8.1.0

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Added

• Web platform support for video recording with startRecordVideo() and stopRecordVideo() methods using MediaRecorder API

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8.0.15

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Added

• Video quality control: Added videoQuality parameter to camera start options for both iOS and Android, allowing developers to configure video recording quality

Changed

• iOS video quality handling: Clarified that video quality parameter recommendation and effects are specific to iOS platform behavior

Fixed

• Resume flicker: Fixed black flicker issue that occurred when resuming the camera by properly setting the background color
• Camera preparation: Fixed video quality setting not being applied during camera preparation phase

Dependencies

• Updated @capacitor/app dependency to version 7.1.2

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8.0.14

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Fixed

• Camera flip now correctly preserves the centered view configuration when switching between front and rear cameras

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8.0.13

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Added

• AGENTS.md documentation providing contribution and development guidelines for project agents

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8.0.12

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Fixed

• Updated CameraX version to 1.5.3 to resolve dependency issues and improve compatibility

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8.0.11

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Changed

• Added Capacitor version compatibility table to README documenting support for plugin versions v5 through v8, clarifying that the plugin major version follows Capacitor's major version

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8.0.10

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Fixed

• Android: Background flickering during camera initialization by deferring transparency until camera is ready
• Android: Camera center position loss when app pauses and resumes
• Android: Initial device ID not being set correctly when changing camera devices
• Android: Exposure compensation being reset to 0 when exposure is locked
• Android: Potential race conditions and null pointer exceptions in background restoration
• iOS: rotateWhenOrientationChanged parameter being ignored on camera initialization
• iOS: Physical device orientation tracking using CoreMotion accelerometer for improved orientation detection
• iOS: Single x or y position parameter being ignored during camera start (now matches Android behavior)
• iOS: Unbalanced reference count issue with orientation device notifications

Changed

• iOS: Accelerometer now starts on camera session start for better orientation tracking
• iOS: Orientation detection now uses cached results during capture/crop operations for improved performance
• iOS: Added threshold for flat device orientation to reduce unnecessary updates

Removed

• Prettier configuration file from example app

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8.0.9

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Changed

• Lock capacitor-swift-pm dependency to version 8.0.0 for improved stability and compatibility
• Add automated CI guard to enforce capacitor-swift-pm version constraint

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8.0.8

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Changed

• Updated Gradle to version 8.14.4
• Updated capacitor-swift-pm dependency constraint from exact version "8.0.1" to "from: 8.0.1" allowing compatible version updates

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