[android-developers] Re: Camera capture without a preview...

I don't know definitively, but it's been said here before that this
isn't possible. The explanation was that it's a security measure, to
prevent the camera running without the user's knowledge - which makes
good sense.

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On Jul 14, 4:40 am, ashughes <ashug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would also like to know how to do this. Have you figured it out?
> Does anyone know how to take a picture in the background (such as a
> service) without needing a preview?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
> On Jun 30, 12:04 am, SaiKiranVeluri <saikiran.vel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Is it possible to capture an imagewithoutshowing the camerapreview?, i have a requirement that i should be able to capture the
> > image from a thread or from a service,withoutdisturbing the
> > foreground application, where i do not want to show the camerapreview, but still i want to capture the image in background and store
> > it in the device.
>
> > So is it possible to do using the Android 2.2 SDK version?
>
> > Thanks in advance,
>
> > Regards,
> > Sai Kiran V.

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