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Android

Posted by Akul Juneja
Akul Juneja
589 Points

Calling camera activity using intent

I am working on an android application that is based on image editing.It requires the use of the cell phone camera.As i am a beginner I do not know how to start the camera. I have created a button.On clicking the button,the camera must start and once a picture is clicked,it should return to the main application. Any sort of help would be appreciated. :)

1 Answer

Ben Jakuben
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

We will definitely cover this at some point in our Android projects, but for now, there are a few online resources that might help you. Lars Vogel's website has a lot of good tutorials, like this one on the camera: http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidCamera/article.html

For your example I would recommend using an Intent to use the camera app rather than trying to do anything custom. Here's the specific sample for that from the above tutorial: http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidCamera/article.html#example

The Android Developer site has a good section on using the camera: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/camera.html

And for what it's worth, here's a more complex camera example available on GitHub: https://github.com/josnidhin/Android-Camera-Example