Ok I'm at the point where I'm trying to read back the image returned
from the camera, I didn't notice till now the Hero is special. So
you're just doing what works for the Hero, catching the null pointer,
then doing what works for the rest?
I'm betting this is an Android 1.5 issue? Most of the other phones
are 1.6 now. The Hero is odd for other reasons too though.
On Dec 10, 11:15 am, Vytautas Vaitukaitis
<vaitukaitis.vytau...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm using the following code to obtain the 512x384 resolution images
> and it seems to work on all of the devices that I've tested it on (G1,
> Hero, Droid, Tattoo, Magic and some others):
>
> - to start the camera app
>
> intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
> mImageCaptureUri = Uri.fromFile(new File
> (Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "test" + String.valueOf
> (System.currentTimeMillis()) + ".jpg"));
> intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, imageCaptureUri);
> startActivityForResult(intent, Editable.IMAGE_CAPTURE_TAG);
>
> - to get the picture, in the onActivityResult() method
>
> Uri source;
> try
> {
> // this only works with Hero's camera app - otherwise throws
> NullPointerException
> source = data.getData();}
>
> catch (Exception e)
> {
> // cannot use this as the only case as Hero's camera app wouldn't
> save the picture where it's asked to, in all of the other phones this
> works, i.e. the picture is saved at the Uri passed with the intent...
> source = mImageCaptureUri;}
>
> // do whatever you want to do with the image
>
> If there are some issues with this approach, I would be grateful if
> anyone could let me know.
>
> On Dec 9, 3:23 am, API Tests <testapiacco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I'd like to let the user take a picture using the camera, then use it
> > in my app. Ideally I could use the built-in camera app via an intent
> > for this. It looks like there's a range of issues with the camera app
> > though:
>
> > http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1480
>
> > is the only reliable option to use the 192x256 memory-only image
> > supplied by the camera intent? The following seems to not work:
>
> > 1) Asking the camera intent to write a 'full size' image to disk.
> > 2) Writing your own camera app (issues on different devices etc).
>
> > The Facebook app seems to use the memory-only 192x256 option, probably
> > because that's the only safe option. Anyone else have different
> > opinions / experiences?
>
> > Thanks
>
>
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