HAITHAM
ASSOLI.

Independent developer
Based in Amman, JO

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Halal Camera

A camera that blurs faces the moment you shoot.

Role
Solo: both platforms
Year
2025
Discipline
AI
Status
Shipped
Halal Camera

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The idea

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.

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.

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

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Challenges

The unfiltered original must never be written

The challenge

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.

The approach

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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Results

  • Published on Google Play, with a native iOS counterpart.
  • Blurring applied before the file is written to storage.
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