How to take a photo, save it and get the photo in Android

Question

I\'ve been searching the simple example to take a photo, and save it using URI and retrieve the photo for image processing , I\'ve tried lot of example code, but none of them w

Answer 1

I had the same problem.

I was testing some codes from the internet, and couldn't find any. Then, I studied some basics codes from developer.android. After that, I mixed two different codes and my one worked! Here it goes!

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    static final int PICTURE_RESULT = 1;
    String mCurrentPhotoPath;
    ContentValues values;
    private Uri file;
    ImageView imageView;
    Bitmap help1;

    ThumbnailUtils thumbnail;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView);
        values = new ContentValues();
    }

    public void launch_camera(View v) {
        // the intent is my camera
        Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
        //getting uri of the file
        file = Uri.fromFile(getFile());

        //Setting the file Uri to my photo
        intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT,file);

        if(intent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager())!=null)
        {
            startActivityForResult(intent, PICTURE_RESULT);
        }
    }

    //this method will create and return the path to the image file
    private File getFile() {
        File folder = Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory("/From_camera/imagens");// the file path

        //if it doesn't exist the folder will be created
        if(!folder.exists())
        {folder.mkdir();}

        String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss").format(new Date());
        String imageFileName = "JPEG_"+ timeStamp + "_";
        File image_file = null;

        try {
            image_file = File.createTempFile(imageFileName,".jpg",folder);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        mCurrentPhotoPath = image_file.getAbsolutePath();
        return image_file;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        if(requestCode == PICTURE_RESULT) {
            if(resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
                try {
                    help1 = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(getContentResolver(),file);
                    imageView.setImageBitmap( thumbnail.extractThumbnail(help1,help1.getWidth(),help1.getHeight()));
                }catch (Exception e){
                    e.printStackTrace(); 
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

the XML files just have a Button and a ImageView and do not forget to declare in your android manifest the permissions:

<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera"    android:required="true" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"  />

for more informations a suggest: https://developer.android.com/training/camera/photobasics.html#TaskPhotoView https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je9bdkdNQqg

Answer 2

define a variable like this

protected static final int CAPTURE_IMAGE_ACTIVITY_REQUEST_CODE = 0;

Use the code for calling camera from android.

Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
imageUri = Uri.fromFile(new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),"fname_" +        
                        String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis()) + ".jpg"));
intent.putExtra(android.provider.MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, imageUri);
startActivityForResult(intent, CAPTURE_IMAGE_ACTIVITY_REQUEST_CODE);

and in the class calling this override the onActivityResult function and enter the code below.

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {

    if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
        if (requestCode == CAPTURE_IMAGE_ACTIVITY_REQUEST_CODE) {

            //use imageUri here to access the image

            Bundle extras = data.getExtras();

            Log.e("URI",imageUri.toString());

            Bitmap bmp = (Bitmap) extras.get("data");

            // here you will get the image as bitmap


        } 
          else if (resultCode == RESULT_CANCELED) {
            Toast.makeText(this, "Picture was not taken", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
           } 
         }


    }

Answer 3

there are several example to capture image and store it and open it...

1. Android Camera API - Tutorial

2. Android Developers

3. Camera Example on Github

4. Another Example

Answer 4

please use the following code.

package com.example.stackoverflow;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.security.SecureRandom;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Environment;
import android.provider.MediaStore;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.GridView;
import android.widget.ImageView;

public class MyCameraActivity extends Activity {
    private static final int CAMERA_REQUEST = 1888; 



    static String str_Camera_Photo_ImagePath = "";
    private static File f;
    private static int Take_Photo = 2;
    private static String str_randomnumber = "";
    static String str_Camera_Photo_ImageName = "";
    public static String str_SaveFolderName;
    private static File wallpaperDirectory;
    Bitmap bitmap;
    int storeposition = 0;
    public static GridView gridview;
    public static ImageView imageView;



    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.ccccc);
        this.imageView = (ImageView)this.findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
        Button photoButton = (Button) this.findViewById(R.id.button1);
        photoButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                str_SaveFolderName = Environment
                        .getExternalStorageDirectory()
                        .getAbsolutePath()
                        + "/rajeshsample";
                str_randomnumber = String.valueOf(nextSessionId());
                wallpaperDirectory = new File(str_SaveFolderName);
                if (!wallpaperDirectory.exists())
                    wallpaperDirectory.mkdirs();
                str_Camera_Photo_ImageName = str_randomnumber
                        + ".jpg";
                str_Camera_Photo_ImagePath = str_SaveFolderName
                        + "/" + str_randomnumber + ".jpg";
                System.err.println(" str_Camera_Photo_ImagePath  "
                        + str_Camera_Photo_ImagePath);
                f = new File(str_Camera_Photo_ImagePath);
                startActivityForResult(new Intent(
                        MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE).putExtra(
                        MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, Uri.fromFile(f)),
                        Take_Photo);
                System.err.println("f  " + f);
            }
        });
    }


    // used to create randon numbers
    public String nextSessionId() {
        SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
        return new BigInteger(130, random).toString(32);
    }


    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {  
        if (requestCode == Take_Photo) {
            String filePath = null;

            filePath = str_Camera_Photo_ImagePath;
            if (filePath != null) {
                Bitmap faceView = ( new_decode(new File(
                                filePath))); // ========================> good
                                                // lines



                imageView.setImageBitmap(faceView);

            } else {
                bitmap = null;
            }
        }
    } 

    public static Bitmap new_decode(File f) {

        // decode image size

        BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
        o.inDither = false; // Disable Dithering mode

        o.inPurgeable = true; // Tell to gc that whether it needs free memory,
                                // the Bitmap can be cleared

        o.inInputShareable = true; // Which kind of reference will be used to
                                    // recover the Bitmap data after being
                                    // clear, when it will be used in the future
        try {
            BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null, o);
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e1.printStackTrace();
        }

        // Find the correct scale value. It should be the power of 2.
        final int REQUIRED_SIZE = 300;
        int width_tmp = o.outWidth, height_tmp = o.outHeight;
        int scale = 1;
        while (true) {
            if (width_tmp / 1.5 < REQUIRED_SIZE && height_tmp / 1.5 < REQUIRED_SIZE)
                break;
            width_tmp /= 1.5;
            height_tmp /= 1.5;
            scale *= 1.5;
        }

        // decode with inSampleSize
        BitmapFactory.Options o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options();
        // o2.inSampleSize=scale;
        o.inDither = false; // Disable Dithering mode

        o.inPurgeable = true; // Tell to gc that whether it needs free memory,
                                // the Bitmap can be cleared

        o.inInputShareable = true; // Which kind of reference will be used to
                                    // recover the Bitmap data after being
                                    // clear, when it will be used in the future
        // return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null, o2);
        try {

//          return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null,
//                  null);
            Bitmap bitmap= BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f), null, null);
            System.out.println(" IW " + width_tmp);
            System.out.println("IHH " + height_tmp);           
               int iW = width_tmp;
                int iH = height_tmp;

               return Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bitmap, iW, iH, true);

        } catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
            // TODO: handle exception
            e.printStackTrace();
            // clearCache();

            // System.out.println("bitmap creating success");
            System.gc();
            return null;
            // System.runFinalization();
            // Runtime.getRuntime().gc();
            // System.gc();
            // decodeFile(f);
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }

    }

}

XML :

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

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="photo" >
    </Button>

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_action_search" >
    </ImageView>

</LinearLayout>