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AI2025

Halal Camera

A camera that blurs faces the moment you shoot.

  • Shipped
Halal Camera — cover screenshot

Project factsبيانات المشروع

In short

A camera app that automatically detects and blurs faces immediately after capture, for people who want to photograph a place or an event without photographing the people in it. Built natively for both Android and iOS.

The compartments

Role
Solo: both platforms
Year
2025
Status
Shipped

Built with

  • Kotlin
  • Swift
  • On-device face detection
  • CameraX
  • AVFoundation

What it isما هو

Photographing a wedding hall, a classroom or a family gathering means capturing faces that should not be captured. Editing them out afterwards means the unblurred original existed, was stored, and possibly synced to a cloud backup before you got to it.

Halal Camera closes that window: detection and blurring happen right after capture, on the device, so the file that reaches storage is already filtered.

تصوير قاعة عرس أو صف دراسي أو تجمّع عائلي يعني التقاط وجوه لا ينبغي التقاطها. وحذفها لاحقًا يعني أن الأصل غير المشوَّش قد وُجد وخُزّن وربما رُفع إلى نسخة سحابية قبل أن تصل إليه.

يُغلق «كاميرا حلال» تلك النافذة: يقع الكشف والتشويش بعد الالتقاط مباشرة على الجهاز، فيصل الملف إلى التخزين مُرشَّحًا أصلًا.

Results

  • Published on Google Play, with a native iOS counterpart.
  • Blurring applied before the file is written to storage.
  • منشور على Google Play، مع نظير أصلي لـ iOS.
  • يُطبَّق التشويش قبل كتابة الملف إلى التخزين.

Challenges

Each one opens twice: what went wrong on the left, what I did on the right.

01

The unfiltered original must never be written

Problem

The natural implementation saves the photo, then processes it. That leaves the original on disk, where a gallery scanner or a cloud backup can pick it up before it is replaced.

What I did

Processing happens on the in-memory frame before anything is persisted, so the only file that ever exists on disk is the filtered one.

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