On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Simon MacDonald <simon.macdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > I kinda think we need a preview. Here is some new plugins that have > just been submitted that do what we are looking to do: > > https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/ForegroundCamera > https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/ForegroundGallery >
These plugins are REALLY barebones, and look very similar to the Camera code that you wrote earlier. There's no Auto Focus or Zoom on these cameras, both of which are currently working on my branch. https://github.com/infil00p/callback-android/tree/camera And here's a screenshot from an HTC One X showing that we need assets: http://www.flickr.com/photos/52655207@N00/8051510525/in/photostream > One of my other thoughts about this endeavour is that it is a lot more > work than we first thought. I don't see this making 2.2.0 as we'll > need to test the hell out of it before replacing the current camera. > Agreed. Hacking together a simple camera definitely has some feature creep. There's also the fact that we have to test it across a wide range of devices, which we've been doing here, but this is basically regular Native Android development at this point. That being said, I'm working on putting Preview in the same activity as the Camera because I don't think it needs a 2nd activity, and I don't like the extra intent passing after hacking on it earlier. I'm hoping to get the preview working. After that, we're going to have to deal with other state issues, namely what happens when the phone goes to sleep. Then there's the whole transcribing of the layouts to code so that we don't have to get users to pass around another XML layout or do things like have scripts add Java includes. (I think our scripts write enough Java code already) Joe
