title: Xamarin Forms - How to get camera stream and play with it?
body: <p>Since a while, but without success, I'm trying to achieve a cross-platform solution that makes me able to use a custom camera with custom functionalities. However, no one on the internet seems to get it done over each platform (Often, only Android &amp; iOS are implemented, but no UWP) and I still don't understand why...</p>
  
  <p>I've been searching for the past months how to make something, like a service, a dependency service like, from which you can get the stream/frames of the camera. Once you get it, be able to put it into an <code>Xamarin.Forms.Image</code>.</p>
  
  <p>The principle of this conception would allow developers to implement functions, inside of the dependency service, such as taking video or taking pictures from the native stream camera.</p>
  
  <p>You could say "But you can already use NuGet as <code>Xam.Plugin.Media</code> from James Montemagno.". Yes, but with his package, you call the native built-in camera so you can't implement your own design or your own functionalities..</p>
  
  <p>So my question is: "Does someone has any tips or any project that can help to realize this project/idea?". If I can make it work, then I will create a project on my public <a href="https://github.com/Emixam23/XamarinByEmixam23" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GitHub</a>, in order to help future people who would like to realize it.</p>
  
  <p>Thank for any help</p>
  
  <p><strong>PS: There is some results about some researches I made:</strong> <a href="https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/comment/284359/#Comment_284359" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/comment/284359/#Comment_284359</a></p>