Start Native Camera without showing chooser

Question

Is it possible to start native android camera app that starts default camera instead of showing intent chooser and then start activity to get results?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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You can start the Camera app by using a intent, like in: Android camera intent

You can set a specific class in your intent like this:
Intent intent = new Intent("android.media.action.IMAGE_CAPTURE");
intent.setClassName("com.android.camera", "com.android.camera.Camera");

This will not show the intent-chooser and launch the default Camera-app.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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answered May 23 '12 at 11:12

FrankkieNL

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This doesnot works. It gave error to register this activity in manifest and i did that as well. but still the problem is there – Jan May 27 '12 at 11:14
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This will not work across different phones since many OEMs use their own camera with different class/package names. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3748605/starting-video-camera-with-intent – Andrew G Oct 01 '12 at 18:32
**setClassName** doesn't work, without this line it works but if there are some 3rd party application like **Line Camera**, **Paper Camera** are installed in your phone above action will open a chooser. So how to open default camera without showing chooser? – Nauman Zubair Sep 27 '13 at 12:22
Check what the package and class of the camera-app is, and put that information in setClassName. – FrankkieNL Sep 27 '13 at 13:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '12 at 09:04

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Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);            
 startActivityForResult(intent, TAKE_PICTURE);

answered Jun 10 '12 at 09:04

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 10 '12 at 09:10

imageView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
        Button photoButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
        photoButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
                startActivityForResult(cameraIntent, CAMERA_REQUEST);
            }
        });
    }

    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { 
        if (requestCode == CAMERA_REQUEST) { 
            Bitmap photo = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data");
            imageView.setImageBitmap(photo);
        } 

    }

In Manifest

<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera"/>

This asks for chooser. I want to start native android camera only and i want to hide the chooser means it directly opens native camera application. — Jan, Jun 11 '12 at 08:37

Start Native Camera without showing chooser

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