I am very new to android programming and All I want to do is open camera app in surface view so that I can open camera into it and set some parameters like following?
Camera camera = Camera.open();
Parameters p = camera.getParameters();
p.setFlashMode(Parameters.FLASH_MODE_ON);
camera.setParameters(p);
camera.startPreview();
camera.release();
I came across comments saying that I HAVE to pass a surface. so I have created following surface:
package com.example.fcloader;
import java.io.IOException;
import android.content.Context;
import android.view.SurfaceView;
import android.view.SurfaceHolder;
import android.hardware.Camera;
public class CameraSurfaceView extends SurfaceView implements SurfaceHolder.Callback
{
private SurfaceHolder holder;
private Camera camera;
public CameraSurfaceView(Context context)
{
super(context);
//Initiate the Surface Holder properly
this.holder = this.getHolder();
this.holder.addCallback(this);
this.holder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS);
}
@Override
public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder)
{
try
{
//Open the Camera in preview mode
this.camera = Camera.open();
this.camera.setPreviewDisplay(this.holder);
}
catch(IOException ioe)
{
ioe.printStackTrace(System.out);
}
}
@Override
public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder holder, int format, int width, int height)
{
// Now that the size is known, set up the camera parameters and begin
// the preview.
Camera.Parameters parameters = camera.getParameters();
parameters.setPreviewSize(width, height);
camera.setParameters(parameters);
camera.startPreview();
}
@Override
public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder holder)
{
// Surface will be destroyed when replaced with a new screen
//Always make sure to release the Camera instance
camera.stopPreview();
camera.release();
camera = null;
}
public Camera getCamera()
{
return this.camera;
}
}
This is code of basic surface that I got online. My question is that What should I change to make these things work with each other?