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I'm trying to create a 2D game engine for an Android app. I've followed this tutorial , which works fine for creating a full screen display, but I don't want that. I want to make my view take the top 2/3 (or whatever) of the screen, and fill the bottom third with standard Android widgets (buttons, text entry, etc.). I cannot get this to work. The best I can get is a blank white screen. I've tried many permutations, including using an outer LinerLayout, then embedding the custom SurfaceView inside a nested RelativeLayout, and putting the Android widgets in a nested LinearLayout, and it doesn't

I would like to ask about a problem that has been addressed here once or twice, but none of information I found could help me overcome the problem I faced a few days ago. I want to make a live wallpaper for android using canvases - it is not graphically complicated enough to require OpenGL. For simplicity assume it consists of solid background and two smaller rectangles. Drawing consists of three separate stages (in single thread): backgroundDraw() requests entire canvas lock and draws on it solid color draw1() requests partial (Rect r1) lock and draws only on locked rectangle draw2() requests

Whenever I run the cam_thread I get the error "app passed NULL surface". This code supposedly works on the HTC Incredible 1. I've reconfigured it slightly to run on a droid x. However I still get this error. public class Android_Activity extends Activity { Main_thread simulator; ToggleButton togglebutton; EditText ip_text; SensorManager sm = null; SurfaceView view; Sensors_thread the_sensors=null; String IP_address; Android_Activity the_app; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); view = new SurfaceView

I am trying to play url using media player in activity using: mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(getApplicationContext(), Uri.parse("http://www.pocketjourney.com/downloads/pj/video/famous.3gp"), holder); It's working fine. Same code I use to set it as an live wallpaper in @onSurfaceCreated in WallpaperService , it's giving me following error log D/MediaPlayer( 4128): create failed: D/MediaPlayer( 4128): java.io.IOException: setDataSource failed.: status=0x80000000 D/MediaPlayer( 4128): at android.media.MediaPlayer._setDataSource(Native Method) D/MediaPlayer( 4128): at android.media.MediaPlayer

I have created a custom camera preview view CameraView which extends SurfaceView , and it also implements SurfaceHolder.Callback interface. The view operates with the camera. When you open the view it shows a camera preview. On the same screen there is also overlay with two buttons - 'Take picture', 'Choose from gallery'. The activity that holds the CameraView releases and reopens the camera in onPause() and onResume() methods. If I click the 'Choose from gallery' button, the following intent is created: Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT); intent.setType("image/*");

mMediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder(); // Step 1: Unlock and set camera to MediaRecorder mCamera.unlock(); mMediaRecorder.setCamera(mCamera); // Step 2: Set sources // activate this for recording with sound\ mMediaRecorder.setAudioSource(MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC); mMediaRecorder.setVideoSource(MediaRecorder.VideoSource.CAMERA); mMediaRecorder.setOutputFormat(MediaRecorder.OutputFormat.MPEG_4); mMediaRecorder.setVideoSize(getMaxSupportedVideoSize().width,getMaxSupportedVideoSize().height); mMediaRecorder.setVideoEncoder(MediaRecorder.VideoEncoder.H264); mMediaRecorder.setAudioEncoder

I am displaying a live camera in SurfaceView using camera.startPreview(); . Any idea on how I can get live RGB readings from the camera? Thanks I thought I could get the data converted from the SurfaceView . But the best method to use is : Set the camera's orientation to 90 degrees. Set output format to NV21 (which is guranteed to be supported on all devices). Set to turn the Flash ON. Start preview in the SurfaceView . List item camera = Camera.open(); cameraParam = camera.getParameters(); cameraParam.setPreviewFormat(ImageFormat.NV21); camera.setDisplayOrientation(90); camera.setParameters

I am trying to open the camera hardware on a SurfaceView. In the layout, I created a SurfaceView and I open the camera as shown in the code below. When I run the code, the toast in the CameraAvailableCB shows up and says "onCameraAvailable" but nothing appears on the SurfaceView. How do I show the camera display on the SurfaceView? Code @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); this.mBtnCapture = (Button) findViewById(R.id.actMain_btn_capture); this.mSurfaceView = (SurfaceView) findViewById(R.id