Camera Tutorial for Android (Using Surfaceview)

Camera Tutorial for Android (using surfaceview)

Ok. So here is the solution:

I am not adding any try catch.
This is simply for the capturing the image and storing it into the sdcard.

public class VideoServer extends Activity implements SurfaceHolder.Callback {
    TextView testView;

    Camera camera;
    SurfaceView surfaceView;
    SurfaceHolder surfaceHolder;
    PictureCallback rawCallback;
    ShutterCallback shutterCallback;
    PictureCallback jpegCallback;
    private final String tag = "VideoServer";

    Button start, stop, capture;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        start = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btn_start);
        start.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener()
        {
            public void onClick(View arg0) {
                start_camera();
            }
        });
        stop = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btn_stop);
        capture = (Button) findViewById(R.id.capture);
        stop.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener()
        {
            public void onClick(View arg0) {
                stop_camera();
            }
        });
        capture.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                captureImage();
            }
        });

        surfaceView = (SurfaceView)findViewById(R.id.surfaceView1);
        surfaceHolder = surfaceView.getHolder();
        surfaceHolder.addCallback(this);
        surfaceHolder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS);
        rawCallback = new PictureCallback() {
            public void onPictureTaken(byte[] data, Camera camera) {
                Log.d("Log", "onPictureTaken - raw");
            }
        };

        /** Handles data for jpeg picture */
        shutterCallback = new ShutterCallback() {
            public void onShutter() {
                Log.i("Log", "onShutter'd");
            }
        };
        jpegCallback = new PictureCallback() {
            public void onPictureTaken(byte[] data, Camera camera) {
                FileOutputStream outStream = null;
                try {
                    outStream = new FileOutputStream(String.format(
                            "/sdcard/%d.jpg", System.currentTimeMillis()));
                    outStream.write(data);
                    outStream.close();
                    Log.d("Log", "onPictureTaken - wrote bytes: " + data.length);
                } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } finally {
                }
                Log.d("Log", "onPictureTaken - jpeg");
            }
        };
    }

    private void captureImage() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        camera.takePicture(shutterCallback, rawCallback, jpegCallback);
    }

    private void start_camera()
    {
        try{
            camera = Camera.open();
        }catch(RuntimeException e){
            Log.e(tag, "init_camera: " + e);
            return;
        }
        Camera.Parameters param;
        param = camera.getParameters();
        //modify parameter
        param.setPreviewFrameRate(20);
        param.setPreviewSize(176, 144);
        camera.setParameters(param);
        try {
            camera.setPreviewDisplay(surfaceHolder);
            camera.startPreview();
            //camera.takePicture(shutter, raw, jpeg)
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.e(tag, "init_camera: " + e);
            return;
        }
    }

    private void stop_camera()
    {
        camera.stopPreview();
        camera.release();
    }

    public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder arg0, int arg1, int arg2, int arg3) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }

    public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }

    public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder holder) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }

}

Don't press caputure button before the start,because I didn't checked it. I just wanted to show you that how to capture and store image into the sdcard.

android : camera preview using surfaceview

Have you set the permission in your AndroidManifest.xml?

// permission for camera

Update : Use the answer by Narendra Pal on this SO- Camera Tutorial for Android (using surfaceview)

On devices without back-facing camera Camera.open() returns null. Try Camera.open(0) to get front camera. If you are using emulator, make sure you have enabled camera for your emulator device.

How to capture image from custom CameraView in Android?

try to use Surface View for creating dynamic camera view and set in your required portion.

following code try

variables set Class level (Global)

Button btn_capture;
Camera camera1;
SurfaceView surfaceView;
SurfaceHolder surfaceHolder;
public static boolean previewing = false;

Following code in onCreate() method

getWindow().setFormat(PixelFormat.UNKNOWN);
    surfaceView = new SurfaceView(this);
    surfaceHolder = surfaceView.getHolder();
    surfaceHolder.addCallback(this);
    surfaceHolder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS);
btn_capture = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);

surfaceView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.your_background_image);

if(!previewing){

        camera1 = Camera.open();
        if (camera1 != null){
            try {
                camera1.setDisplayOrientation(90);
                camera1.setPreviewDisplay(surfaceHolder);
                camera1.startPreview();
                previewing = true;
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }

btn_capture.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            if(camera != null)
            {
                camera1.takePicture(myShutterCallback, myPictureCallback_RAW, myPictureCallback_JPG);

            }
        }
    });

Following code put after onCreate() in your class.

ShutterCallback myShutterCallback = new ShutterCallback(){

    public void onShutter() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }};

PictureCallback myPictureCallback_RAW = new PictureCallback(){

    public void onPictureTaken(byte[] arg0, Camera arg1) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }};

PictureCallback myPictureCallback_JPG = new PictureCallback(){

    public void onPictureTaken(byte[] arg0, Camera arg1) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        Bitmap bitmapPicture = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(arg0, 0, arg0.length);

        Bitmap correctBmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitmapPicture, 0, 0, bitmapPicture.getWidth(), bitmapPicture.getHeight(), null, true);

    }};

public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder holder, int format, int width,
        int height) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    if(previewing){
        camera1.stopPreview();
        previewing = false;
    }

    if (camera1 != null){
        try {
            camera1.setPreviewDisplay(surfaceHolder);
            camera1.startPreview();
            previewing = true;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder holder) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        camera1.stopPreview();
        camera1.release();
        camera1 = null;
        previewing = false;

}

in AndroidManifest.xml give user-permissions.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA"/>
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" android:required="false"/>
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.front" android:required="false"/>

and also not forgot ( implements SurfaceHolder.Callback ) to the class.

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