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Camera

List of types:

Camera

The camera object allows you to access the device cameras.
This library is supported by Android 1.6+.
If possible it is recommended to work with CameraEx class that wraps this object and adds many features.
The CameraEx class requires Android 2.3+.
This is an 'Activity Object', it cannot be declared under Sub Process_Globals.

Permissions:

android.permission.CAMERA

Events:

Ready (Success As Boolean)
PictureTaken (Data() As Byte)
Preview (Data() As Byte)
FocusDone (Success As Boolean)

Members:

AutoFocus

CancelAutoFocus

Initialize (Panel As android.view.ViewGroup, EventName As String)

Initialize2 (Panel As android.view.ViewGroup, EventName As String, CameraId As Int)

Release

StartPreview

StopPreview

TakePicture

Members description:

AutoFocus

Starts auto-focus function. The FocusDone event will be raised when the operation completes.
You can check whether the "auto" focus mode is supported with CameraEx class.

CancelAutoFocus

Cancels the auto-focus operation. Does nothing if no such operation is in progress.

Initialize (Panel As android.view.ViewGroup, EventName As String)

Initializes the back camera.
Panel - The preview images will be displayed on the panel.
EventName - Events subs prefix.
The Ready event will be raised when the camera has finished opening.

Initialize2 (Panel As android.view.ViewGroup, EventName As String, CameraId As Int)

Same as Initialize. CameraId is the id of the hardware camera.
This method is only available from Android 2.3+.

Release

Releases the camera object and allows other processes to access the camera.

StartPreview

Starts displaying the preview images.

StopPreview

Stops displaying the preview images.

TakePicture

Takes a picture. When the picture is ready, the PictureTaken event will be raised.
You should not call TakePicture while another picture is currently taken.
The preview images are stopped after calling this method. You can call StartPreview to restart the preview images.