Android :: Camera Preview Screen Still Black

Mar 16, 2010

I'm trying the camera preview

This is my code and it doesn't throw any error, but the screen still black, any ideas?

this.setContentView(R.layout.camerapreview);
SurfaceView cameraSurface = (SurfaceView)findViewById(R.id.cpPreview);
SurfaceHolder holder = cameraSurface.getHolder();
holder.addCallback(this);
holder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS);
this.camera = Camera.open();
this.camera.setPreviewDisplay(holder);
this.camera.startPreview();}

Android :: Camera Preview screen still black


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Nov 16, 2009

I have been playing with Android for a couple of months, so I'm still kindof newbie on this. I've looking for previous questions like mine, but I was unable to find any proper solution. So here goes my question:

I'm trying to draw a Camera Preview in a certain part of the screen (for instance, square upper-left). So what I suppose I should do is the following:

CODE:.............

And on the Preview Class I have the following lines:

CODE:....................

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CODE:......................

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CODE:............

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http://itp.nyu.edu/~sve204/mobilemedia_spring10/androidCamera101.pdf

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I am writing an android 1.5 application which starts just after boot-up. This is a service and should take a picture without preview. This app will log the light density in some areas whatever. I was able to take a picture but the picture was black.

After googling like crazy, i came across a bug thread about it. If you don't generate a preview, the image will be black since android camera needs preview to setup exposure and focus. I've created a surfaceview and listener but the onSurfaceCreated event never gets fired.

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CODE:.........

Here is the code for surfaceChanged() which is mostly taken from APIDemos

CODE:......

Does anyone know what is wrong with how we are setting the parameters that would be causing the exception on the Motorola Droid?

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I have a SurfaceView and a GLSurfaceView inside a FrameLayout. The first SurfaceView is used for camera preview, and the GlSurfaceView is for drawing 3D objects that are supposed to be on top of the camera preview.

So natually, I compose the xml like this:

CODE:...........

Unfortunetly, this doesn't work. 3D objects can not be seen. I found later that it only works when the order of the 2 views is reversed, which means:

CODE:..........

The reversed ui works fine, for a while... Everything is OK when the app has a fresh start. But when I press home to go back to the desktop and then click on the icon again to resume the app, 3D objects are gone. Then I reverse the ui again, like before, no 3D objects. But when I press home and then resume the app, they appeared!

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