Take photo with flash via intent

Question

Is any solution to put some parameter to Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE) that would take photo with flash as default parameter?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 31 '16 at 15:39

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There is no Intent extra to allow you to control the flash mode for ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE. Even if there were, not all camera apps would honor it.

answered Aug 31 '16 at 15:39

CommonsWare

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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To check if the Android device has a flash available, you can do this simple check :

context.getPackageManager().hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_CAMERA_FLASH);

This check will return true if there's a flash available on the device or false if it doesn't.

Also after doing quite a bit of digging on Camera intent, turns out the only extra parameter you could use is :

MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

Community

answered Aug 31 '16 at 15:36

RamithDR

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I believe Stanislav would like to know if there is an option to try enable/disable a flash via Intent, effectively telling the launched app to do that. – Alexander M. Aug 31 '16 at 15:39
@AlexanderMayatsky I might have misunderstood the question at first, answer updated. – RamithDR Aug 31 '16 at 16:02

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