Front face camera android.

Question

I am developing a demo in which I have to check if device has front camera if device has front camera then I have to open it to capture a image.

I searched a lot but didn't find any solution. Please help me by giving a solution.

Thanks in advance.

lopez.mikhael · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-18T11:43:40.070

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My solution for use front face camera :

private Camera openFrontFacingCameraGingerbread() {
    int cameraCount = 0;
    Camera cam = null;
    Camera.CameraInfo cameraInfo = new Camera.CameraInfo();
    cameraCount = Camera.getNumberOfCameras();
    for (int camIdx = 0; camIdx<cameraCount; camIdx++) {
        Camera.getCameraInfo(camIdx, cameraInfo);
        if (cameraInfo.facing == Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_FRONT) {
            try {
                cam = Camera.open(camIdx);
            } catch (RuntimeException e) {
                Log.e("Your_TAG", "Camera failed to open: " + e.getLocalizedMessage());
            }
        }
    }
    return cam;
}

Complete tutorial for use camera -> HERE

And my result in picture :

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edited May 18 '13 at 11:43

answered May 18 '13 at 11:31

lopez.mikhael

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thanks for your answer but i tried this code and its not working for me. – rahul May 18 '13 at 11:32
you must have another problem. Directs you to this tutorial : http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidCamera/article.html – lopez.mikhael May 18 '13 at 11:34
thanks for your suggestion, let me try this link. – rahul May 18 '13 at 11:39
can you please send me your demo project if you don't mind on my mail id "tryngbgud.rahul@gmail.com" – rahul May 18 '13 at 12:13
This is a big project, but do not worry I'll send you the files you need :) @rahul – lopez.mikhael May 18 '13 at 12:26
I just sent you a working project on the use of the camera. – lopez.mikhael May 18 '13 at 12:32
Can you send me the example too? I am having troubles to make this work. Thanks – Genaut Aug 13 '13 at 10:44
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I will create an open source project on GitHub. I would leave a comment when it is filed with the link. – lopez.mikhael Aug 13 '13 at 12:26
@lopez.mikhael i try your code but gives error unable to connect to camera service.Can you please help me.what the error is? – Ravi Bhandari Sep 16 '14 at 07:10
@lopez.mikhael you could upload the code? thanks! – benoffi7 Nov 11 '14 at 15:09
The code in this answer looks, to the casual observer at least, essentially the same as the code posted in the question. Please explain in what way this _answers_ the question. I.e. the OP says the code they posted doesn't work, the answer seems to simply claim it does work. What's different? – Peter Duniho Dec 02 '15 at 17:12
@Peter: OP edited it afterwards in, see edit history. – BalusC Dec 03 '15 at 06:30

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