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Add a Camera Preview

I want my Activity background to be the Camera(Back) view,I have so far tried to add a surfaceView but no luck,the tutorials I found were for opening the camera app. P.S- I do want to add more resources over the SurfaceView/Camera. & I don't want to click a picture only the preview As I do not have any code to show as they are not what I need,so here is the next best thing though it may have not been necessary.

Solution

  • have you tried something like this?

     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent">


      <SurfaceView
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="match_parent" />

   <!--views on top should come after the surfaceview, 
   at the same level    in the view heirarchy.
   this gives them a higher z-index (i.e. drawn afterwards)
   ... you could also use a RelativeLayout as the root view -->

      <ImageView
      android:layout_width="100dp"
      android:layout_height="100dp" 
      android:layout_gravity="center"/>



 </FrameLayout>