# How to measure distance between face and front camera?
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-measure-distance-between-face-and-front-camera/638997
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** design
**Created:** [June 26, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-measure-distance-between-face-and-front-camera/638997 "2020-06-26T17:30:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@tequilayu1112d](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tequilayu1112d)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-measure-distance-between-face-and-front-camera/638997/1 "2020-06-26T17:30:42Z")
How to measure distance between face and front camera for CentiMeter?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-measure-distance-between-face-and-front-camera/638997/2 "2020-06-26T20:02:19Z")
Hey @tequilayu1112d đź‘‹
Welcome to the community - I’m a little bit confused by the category and tags you’ve used here. Are you using [Thunkable](https://x.thunkable.com)? I’m not aware of any way to do something like this right now.
What sort of app are you trying to build?
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### Author:  [@tequilayu1112d](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tequilayu1112d)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-measure-distance-between-face-and-front-camera/638997/3 "2020-06-26T23:38:09Z")
Hi domhnallohanlon,
Yes, as mentioned that tried Thunkable but not find any build in function.
As before, I saw Android Studio can do by camera to measure. But I don’t know how to coding.
I think that might be custom function and added multiple category.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-measure-distance-between-face-and-front-camera/638997/4 "2020-06-27T08:02:10Z")
Thanks @tequilayu1112d - unfortunately Thunkable does not support extensions or aia files so this wouldn’t be possible with the current platform.
> [@domhnallohanlon](#):
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> What sort of app are you trying to build?
If you let us know a little more about the type of app you’re trying to build we might be able to recommend an alternative or a work-around.
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### Author:  [@tequilayu1112d](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tequilayu1112d)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 9:15am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-measure-distance-between-face-and-front-camera/638997/5 "2020-06-27T09:15:01Z")
My kid always play mobile phone too close. Hope to develop the apps prompt up the warning.
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 10:33am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-measure-distance-between-face-and-front-camera/638997/6 "2020-06-27T10:33:30Z")
ok, I get it now. Even if these component was available it wouldn’t be possible to build this app with Thunkable as our apps can’t run “on top of” other apps.
You would only be able to measure the proximity in the Thunkable-made app and not in any other app, i.e. games that you kid is playing.
Thanks,
D.
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### Author:  [@tequilayu1112d](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tequilayu1112d)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-measure-distance-between-face-and-front-camera/638997/7 "2020-06-27T14:26:27Z")
Thanks Domhnall for your replied.
Hope Thunkable will be build up for this.
Thank you very much.
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 11:25am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-measure-distance-between-face-and-front-camera/638997/8 "2024-11-08T11:25:28Z")