How do I open the “front camera” on the Android platform?

Question

More generally, if a device has more than one embedded camera, is there a way to initialize one of them in particular?

I didn\'t find it in Android reference documen

Answer 1

With the release of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), you can now use the android.hardware.Camera class to get the number of cameras, information about a specific camera, and get a reference to a specific Camera. Check out the new Camera APIs here.