Droid Dashcam - Video Recorder

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About this app

Droid Dashcam is a great driving video recorder (dashboard camera, BlackBox) app for car/vehicle drivers which can continuously record videos in loop mode, add subtitles with needed information directly on those videos (read below) and record in background, autostart recording and much more.

Features:

* Hardcoded (embedded) Subtitles - Overlay Captions directly on Recording Video file:
- Timestamp (Date)
- Location Address
- GPS Coordinates
- Speed (based on GPS data)
- Vehicle registration plate (car number)

* Background Video Recording - you can continue recording in background and use other apps which doesn't use camera. You can also use notification panel to start/stop recording while this app is running in background.

* Loop Recording - auto deleting old video files when there is not enough space for new videos (you can set max space usage for all videos)

* Options for autostarting recording on charging on/off, on system boot, on Bluetooth device connection/disconnection, AUX-cable connection, or on app launch

* Small (Lightweight) app size

* Automatic change of day and night video recording mode

* Landscape and Portrait Orientations for video recording

* Share or upload a selected video to various services

* Recording in Shared Movies folder or App owned folders (phone and external SDcard storages) - can be set in the settings

* Lock videos from overwriting (G-shock sensor) on impact detection

* Videos Screen which allows selecting video you want and playing it using any video player app you have, deleting selected videos

* Easy to use, simple UI, the configuration of the buttons displayed on the screen, etc.

* Camera selection - you can use any camera for recording (rear/front) but only some devices allows to choose camera with wide-angle lens

* Taking photos

* Floating window with control buttons on top of all applications

* FAQ * https://github.com/HelgeApps/droid_dashcam_faq/wiki/en - answers to frequent questions or feature requests like
- Video Stabilization (EIS, Electronic stabilization) is not available in the app
- Multiple cameras / wide lens camera not available in the app
- Battery usage is high, battery drains fast, device becomes hot

* Language of app
If you wish to help translate app to your language, then you can find existing languages at
https://github.com/HelgeApps/droid_dashcam_faq/tree/main/languages
Use whatever language you know to translate into your language

Ratings and reviews

App is great, allows for audio/video recordings, tons of customization settings, only thing I wish it had was video resolutions that are wider than they are tall when the phone is in the portrait mode, as currently if the phone is in portrait, a lot of the frame is my dashboard/the sky. (Also the highet resolutions tend to be for horizontal, not vertical recording.

Ok, normally I do not leave feedback for normal apps but they worked with me to get it to function correctly and with Google maps running also. The app plays nice with the Google maps app as long as on the car Bluetooth connection, you only connect the phone and not for music. Google maps does not transfer audio over Bluetooth to my Subaru Forester so it has to use the phone speaker for maps, but Bluetooth for phone calls and texts. I even purchased the app since it worked so well. Thank you ! !

At one point, I loved this app. However, ever since the last update, regardless of having the Loop Recording activated, it will not do it. Just just fills up the memory, won't delete the oldest video like it should, and just stops recording. Very disappointed in this.

What's new

Handles the issue (to prevent crashes) when uses can't select some storages on some Samsung devices (Android 13-14) because they don't provide a persistent support.

- OPEN BETA testing with reimplemented UI by new Android technologies (design mostly the same) to support app much better with some new features available - https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.helge.droiddashcam