Is it true that android doesn't let apps use the camera?

[asim18]

I know someone who's an iPhone fan. Apparently Android doesn't let apps use the camera directly, and every time an app needs to take a photo it needs to screenshot the screen to generate a photo, and if its a video it will need to screen capture the screen to generate a video from the camera which the app can use.

And apparently iPhone lets apps access the raw data from the camera so they get better quality snapchats, etc.

Is this true?

 

[asim18]

It just sounds bizarre because I'm sure you can get third party camera apps, so any photo captured using such an app would be limited to your screen resolution.