Android Front Facing Camera Taking Inverted Photos

Question

I have this app that is running in portrait mode and as a part of one activity I have a camera object running as a fragment in it.

I have the option to switch from front

Answer 1

Well well. It seems I have kind of taken care of it. I used the advice from this: Android, front and back camera Orientation , Landscape

And changed my MakeSquare function to this:

public static Bitmap MakeSquare(byte[] data, int cameraID) {
    int width;
    int height;
    Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
    Camera.CameraInfo info = new Camera.CameraInfo();
    android.hardware.Camera.getCameraInfo(cameraID, info);
    // Convert ByteArray to Bitmap
    Bitmap bitPic = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, data.length);
    width = bitPic.getWidth();
    height = bitPic.getHeight();

    // Perform matrix rotations/mirrors depending on camera that took the photo
    if (info.facing == Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_FRONT)
    {
        float[] mirrorY = { -1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1};
        Matrix matrixMirrorY = new Matrix();
        matrixMirrorY.setValues(mirrorY);

        matrix.postConcat(matrixMirrorY);
    }

    matrix.postRotate(90);


    // Create new Bitmap out of the old one
    Bitmap bitPicFinal = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitPic, 0, 0, width, height,matrix, true);
    bitPic.recycle();
    int desWidth;
    int desHeight;
    desWidth = bitPicFinal.getWidth();
    desHeight = desWidth;
    Bitmap croppedBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(bitPicFinal, 0,bitPicFinal.getHeight() / 2 - bitPicFinal.getWidth() / 2,desWidth, desHeight);
    croppedBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(croppedBitmap, 528, 528, true);
    return croppedBitmap;
}

This seems to work and do the trick. Although I am not sure this was the best way, I am content with it. Now all I have to do is figure out why its not taking in the proper aspect ratio when using the front camera.