SDL_GetCurrentCameraDriver(3)

💖 SDL_GetCurrentCameraDriver 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL_GetCurrentCameraDriver(3) page from the SDL3 FUNCTIONS crew 🌸 we're gonna find out what camera driver is currently running the show, and honestly? it's giving detective energy 🔍

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_GetCurrentCameraDriver — get the name of the current camera driver, fr fr 📸

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <SDL3/SDL_camera.h>

const char * SDL_GetCurrentCameraDriver(void);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, the names of drivers are all simple, low-ASCII identifiers 💅 like "v4l2", "coremedia" or "android". no cap.

these never have Unicode characters in them, and they are not meant to be proper names — they're just lil tags, iykyk 🙈

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

returns the name of the current camera driver 🫶 …or NULL if no driver has been initialized 😭 (vibe check failed, nobody showed up to the party)

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💜 THREAD SAFETY 💜

it is safe to call this function from any thread. yes bestie, ANY. go wild, no gatekeeping here 👑

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

this function is available since SDL 3.2.0 ✨ don't come at me if your SDL is older than that, upgrade babe 💅

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and that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 mwah 💋

sourced from Simple Directmedia Layer, version SDL 3.4.18, and yeah this is the SDL_GetCurrentCameraDriver(3) page — love her, she's iconic 👑💖