We will now build the camera preview for the application. We start by creating a new file, generate_live_caption.dart, with a GenerateLiveCaption stateful widget.
Let us look at the following steps to create a live camera preview:
- To add a live camera preview, we will be using the camera plugin. We begin by adding the dependency to the pubspec.yaml file, as follows:
camera: ^0.5.7
Next, we need to add the dependency to the project by running flutter pub get.
- We now create a new file, generate_live_captions.dart, containing a GenerateLiveCaptions stateful widget. All of the code described in the further steps will be included in the _GenerateLiveCaptionState class.
- Import the camera library. We import it ...