How can a device take a screenshot while Using the camera? We are unable to capture a surfaceview

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I'm trying to take a screenshot while using the camera, but it's not happening.
I Searched a lot to find out a solution, but none of the answers gave me exact solution.

My Question is: how can a real Android device (any brand and any model) take a screenshot while using the camera if we're unable to capture a surfaceview?

Possible duplicate of [How to capture the android device screen content?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3067586/how-to-capture-the-android-device-screen-content) — Vladimir Markeev, Jun 08 '18 at 07:39

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '18 at 07:35

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Sorry you can't. The SurfaceView associated to the camera is hardware accelerated so it won't show in your screenshot.

The only solution I came across is to get the preview from the camera and paint it in the SurfaceView programmatically as per this link. Then the screenshot will work.

answered Jun 08 '18 at 07:35

Rutvik Bhatt

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Thank you. I will work on it and I will let you know @ rutvik Bhatt – anwesh Gamenexa Jun 13 '18 at 07:03

How can a device take a screenshot while Using the camera? We are unable to capture a surfaceview

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