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
Privacy:
* All your recorded videos will be saved only on your local device. We never make backup copies of your videos (the application doesn't have and doesn't connect to the servers)
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
- Add an option on the records screen to ask in which player to play a video all the time or use the default player
- Fixes displaying available size after select a USB storage in the settings
- 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
Option to control "Keep the CPU on (Wake Lock)" for background service Watcher at Autostart settings screen. It may use more battery when app just waits for BT/charging/AUX events. In practice, CPU should not fall asleep, so you can disable it to save battery.
- 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
- some fixes for rare used devices
NEWS: 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
IMPROTANT for Android 11+: Automatic start recording on Bluetooth/boot events without manually starting the AutoStart service if "Appear on top" permission granted.
Adds active recording state for Tile Quick Settings option.
Implements Tile Quick Settings option for Android 14+.
NEWS: 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
Fixes saving/restoring camera settings on change
- minor changes
- fixed logic with granting permissions for recording services which starts automatically on Bluetooth auto recording events
- improved logic of opening app screen and starting recording on Bluetooth events when Watcher service isn't running, added tips how it works for different Android versions at App/Settings/Auto recording/Automatic recording without Watcher service
- targets Android 14
- Watcher and recording services were united in single service
- more other fixes, stability
- Exif data
- Improves stability of the recorder.
- Adds more max space options (300/400/500 GB) for loop recording, though it's not recommended to keep many files or set too large max space during loop recording.
- Fixes when Voice option (TTS) doesn't finish fully the phrase on recording stop recording
Removes GPS Priority options, sets back to High Priority by default. It seems Android Location Service with balanced priority doesn't work very good on many devices, they won't be able to find satellites
Shortly: fixes GPS no signal issue.
Full: Ignores GPS Accuracy setting for Balanced and Low GPS Priority mode (because accuracy lower in this case), so now it will be only used for High Accuracy mode
- Handles errors of opening hidden cameras and displays an explanation why the camera is not available for the application (manufacture limitation)
- adds a button to change orientation on the main screen
- fixes opening video files in a video player if .nomedia file (which is not recommended) was added to videos folder
- fixes an issue when selected camera can not be opened and you can not change it to the other one from the main screen
- adds a new method to try find all available cameras (can be useful to access ultra-wide lens camera on phones like Xiaomi/Redmi and others)
- fixes some minor issues
- Japanese translations improved (thanks to Yoshiyuki Yamato @d1vby0)
- stop recording if devices stops charging when BT auto recording and charging only option are both enabled
- shortcuts to start and stop recording without opening the main screen of app (on long tap on app launcher and a separate shortcut launcher which can be added at App/Settings/Interface
- Adds an option to create GPX file for each video record (at App/Settings/Subtitles)
- Adds an option to control microphone priority for this app for audio recording at App/Settings/Audio/ (if the option is enabled, other applications will not be able to use the microphone. If disabled, this application may not be able to record audio when multiple applications are running using the microphone (Android does not always allow simultaneous use of the microphone)
- fix auto start rec on app launch doesn't work after pressing back button on newer Android and the getting back to the app
- updates Turkish language (thanks to juyatlav)
- some other minor fixes
- decreased app size
- battery optimization when video recording is not happening in background
