Open Default Camera App Without Using action.Image_Capture

Question

I want the user to be able to quickly open the default camera app (or one they have set as default) in my app. However, I do not want to use android.media.action.IMAGE_CAPTURE, as this will only show the photo taking portion of the app. I just want to simply open the camera app without using this. I do know that this is possible, as several gallery apps that I have used (Most notibale: Focus) have been able to just simply open the camera app with no issue, and did not use IMAGE_CAPTURE.

Answer 1

This can be achieved by using PackageManager#resolveActivity(Intent)

In Kotlin:

val info: ResolveInfo? = packageManager
        .resolveActivity(cameraIntent);
if (info == null) {
    // No camera app installed.
    return
}

// Documentation says at least one of the three infos is not-null:
val app: ApplicationInfo = info.activityInfo?.applicationInfo 
        ?: info.serviceInfo?.applicationInfo 
        ?: info.providerInfo!!.applicationInfo 
val launch: Intent? = packageManager
        .getLaunchIntentForPackage(app.packageName)
if (launch == null) {
    // Camera app has no default intent.
    return
}
// Launch the camera intent's 
// resolved app's default activity.
context.startActivity(launch)

(Where cameraIntent is the Intent created using the android.media.action.IMAGE_CAPTURE filter, context is the current app context and packageManager is the context's PackageManager instance.)