Android Introduction
Camera
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Many thanks to Jun Bum Lim for his help
with this tutorial.
Goal
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Create an application that launches the
built-in Camera and use the results for
displaying the captured image.
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Layout
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Make a LinearLayout with
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a TextView,
a Button, and
an ImageView
Create a handler for the OnClick event of
the Button
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Launch Camera
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Creating an Intent, as follows, within your button click
handler:
Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
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Launch camera activity with asking result:
startActivityForResult(cameraIntent, CAMERA_PIC_REQUEST);
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define within your application as the request code
returned by the Camera image capture Intent
private static final int CAMERA_PIC_REQUEST = 1;
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Handling result from Camera
By adding onActivityResult() in your Activity:
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protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
if (requestCode == CAMERA_PIC_REQUEST) {
}
}
// display image
Bitmap thumbnail = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data");
ImageView imageTakePic = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageViewPhone);
imageTakePic.setImageBitmap(thumbnail);
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Enforcing Device Requirement
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="ucab.test.camera"
Application wants a
android:versionCode="1"
camera
android:versionName="1.0">
It is not enforced by
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" />
Android
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera"></uses-feature>
<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
<activity android:name=".AndroidCameraActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name">
<intent-filter>
:
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