Android - add menu item to Android's built-in apps?

Question

I\'d like to add a menu option to the Android camera app. Is this possible to do using the current SDK?

Thanks.

Edit : Ok I know I need to add a

Answer 1

I think the build in applications are mostly open source. Maybe you should go to the source code and compile your camera with the added menu buttons yourself?

Answer 2

Most of the built-in Android applications do not add third-party options to their menus.

Answer 3

The closest you can get is to add an option to the 'Share' menu of the built-in camera application. The built-in e-mail app uses the following intent-filter to do this:

<intent-filter>
  <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND"/>
  <data android:mimeType="image/*"/>
  <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
</intent-filter>

(Note the mime-type is specific to image files.)