Good suggestion...could you please log this as a feature request in the
Android issue tracker ?
2008/8/26 webmonkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi Megha,
>
> Thanks for the sample app, but for the next release (1.0) would it be
> possible to let the native Camera application respond to an
> ACTION_GET_CONTENT intent and return with a media store content uri,
> like the Pictures application does now. This way I can use:
>
> Intent intent = new Intent();
> intent.setType("image/*");
> intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
> startActivityForResult( Intent.createChooser(intent,
> getText(R.string.get_picture)) , 1);
>
> To let the user choose if he/she wants to get a picture from the
> Camera app or the Pictures app. Currently only the Pictures app works
> this way.
>
> I can then simply use the code below to get the resulting picture with
> any location information (if available).
>
> protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode,
> Intent data) {
> if (resultCode == RESULT_OK)
> {
> if (requestCode == 1)
> {
> Uri uri = data.getData();
> ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver();
> Bitmap bitmap =
> BitmapFactory.decodeStream( cr.openInputStream(uri) );
>
> double latitude = 0;
> double longitude = 0;
>
> Cursor c = cr.query(uri, new String[] {
> MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.LATITUDE,
> MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.LONGITUDE
> }, null, null, null);
>
> if (c != null) {
> c.moveToFirst();
> latitude =
>
> c.getDouble(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.LATITUDE));
> longitude =
>
> c.getDouble(c.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.LONGITUDE));
> }
>
> // Alternatively if the Camera does not use a media store
> content uri it could return the latitude and longitude in the extra
> fields of the intent.
> }
> }
> }
>
> Using the code above, I don't even have to worry about how the Camera
> works but I will give the user the option of using the Camera or any
> other app that supports GET_CONTENT with image/*.
>
> So I hope you can add support for the GET_CONTENT action in the Camera
> app. It should not be that hard because
> MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE uses a similar approach but does not
> return an uri. And the camera app already stores pictures in the media
> store on the sdcard.
>
> I think this would also solve a lot of problems people are having in
> the developer forum about getting a picture from the camera.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Aug 20, 11:34 pm, "Megha Joshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:40 AM, webmonkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > First, a separate question about the Camera app. When I open it it
> > > tells me "Press Capture button to take picture". Where is the capture
> > > button on the emulator or how do I simulate it?
> >
> > For the inbuilt Camera app, make sure that you have the sdcard installed.
> > Then press the center DPAD key to take a picture.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Now the main question. From my app I want to call the native Camera
> > > app to get a picture with location information. I am currently using
> > > an intent with MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE and it does start the
> > > Camera app but because of the limitation mentioned above I can't test
> > > it. The documentation mentions that "the image is returned as a Bitmap
> > > object in the extra field". What is the actual extra field and how
> > > would I get any longitude and latitude coordinates?
> >
> > To use the Camera APIs see the sample app in the post below:
> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa...
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > - Show quoted text -
> >
>
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