I don't know definitively, but it's been said here before that this isn't possible. The explanation was that it's a security measure, to prevent the camera running without the user's knowledge - which makes good sense.
String On Jul 14, 4:40 am, ashughes <[email protected]> wrote: > I would also like to know how to do this. Have you figured it out? > Does anyone know how to take a picture in the background (such as a > service) without needing a preview? > > Thanks, > Andrew > > On Jun 30, 12:04 am, SaiKiranVeluri <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Is it possible to capture an imagewithoutshowing the camerapreview?, i have > > a requirement that i should be able to capture the > > image from a thread or from a service,withoutdisturbing the > > foreground application, where i do not want to show the camerapreview, but > > still i want to capture the image in background and store > > it in the device. > > > So is it possible to do using the Android 2.2 SDK version? > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Regards, > > Sai Kiran V. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
