Thank you. I shall have to try that.
On Oct 4, 5:52 am, "Mark Murphy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 1) draw graphics over a camerapreviewwhen it is the whole view for
> > the activity?
>
> > 2)do the same thing with a camerapreviewin a layout shared with
> > other (small) views?
>
> Step #1: Put the camerapreview'sSurfaceView in a RelativeLayout.
>
> Step #2: Put the other widgets in the same RelativeLayout, after the
> SurfaceView in the XML, such that those widgets will overlap the
> SurfaceView.
>
> Step #3: There is no step #3.
>
> RelativeLayout and FrameLayout support overlapping widgets; RelativeLayout
> is usually more useful when you have one thing that is the full screen and
> stuff that overlaps portions of it.
>
> You can see an example of this technique here, where I use SurfaceView for
> playing back video and have pop-up panels activated by on-screen taps:
>
> http://github.com/commonsguy/vidtry
>
> It is conceivable that somehow the camerapreview'sSurfaceView will fail
> at this where the MediaPlayer's SurfaceView succeeds, but that would
> surprise me.
>
> --
> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com
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