Crop camera preview for TextureView

Question

I have a TextureView with a fixed width and height and I want to show a camera preview inside of it. I need to crop the camera preview so that it doesn't look stretched inside my TextureView. How to do the cropping? If I need to use OpenGL, how to tie the Surface Texture to OpenGL and how to do the cropping with OpenGL?

public class MyActivity extends Activity implements TextureView.SurfaceTextureListener 
{

   private Camera mCamera;
   private TextureView mTextureView;

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_options);

    mTextureView = (TextureView) findViewById(R.id.camera_preview);
    mTextureView.setSurfaceTextureListener(this);
}

@Override
public void onSurfaceTextureAvailable(SurfaceTexture surface, int width, int height) {
    mCamera = Camera.open();

    try 
    {
        mCamera.setPreviewTexture(surface);
        mCamera.startPreview();
    } catch (IOException ioe) {
        // Something bad happened
    }
}

@Override
public boolean onSurfaceTextureDestroyed(SurfaceTexture surface) {
    mCamera.stopPreview();
    mCamera.release();
    return true;
}

@Override
public void onSurfaceTextureSizeChanged(SurfaceTexture surface, int width, int height) {
}

@Override
public void onSurfaceTextureUpdated(SurfaceTexture surface)
 {
    // Invoked every time there's a new Camera preview frame
 }
}

Also, after doing the preview correctly, I need to be able to read in real-time the pixels found in the center of the cropped image.

Answer 1

Answer given by @SatteliteSD is the most appropriate one. Every camera supports only certain preview sizes which is set at HAL. Hence if the available preview sizes doesn't suffice the requirement then you need to extract data from onPreview