Android Photo and Video Programming

Pluralsight

Course Summary

In this course we discuss how to capitalize on the Android camera within your apps to capture still photos and video. We look at both the simple case of leveraging the built-in camera app and the more detailed scenario of direct camera control.

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Course Description

Android devices allow people to have access to a high-quality photo and video camera at all times. This course teaches you how to capitalize on the Android device’s camera capabilities and incorporate them into your app. Topics covered include leveraging the built-in camera app, embedding a camera preview window in your app’s UI, capturing still photos, capturing video, attaching GPS location data to your photos, determining camera capabilities, configuring the camera, camera zoom, Android Gallery integration, accessing the Media Store, showing thumbnails, and much more.

Course Description

Android devices allow people to have access to a high-quality photo and video camera at all times. This course teaches you how to capitalize on the Android device’s camera capabilities and incorporate them into your app. Topics covered include leveraging the built-in camera app, embedding a camera preview window in your app’s UI, capturing still photos, capturing video, attaching GPS location data to your photos, determining camera capabilities, configuring the camera, camera zoom, Android Gallery integration, accessing the Media Store, showing thumbnails, and much more.

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Course Syllabus

Android Photo and Video Porgramming - Getting Started
- 50m 32s

—Introduction 1m 18s
—Control or ease 1m 53s
—Capture photos with ease 4m 45s
—Demo: Capture photos with ease 7m 23s
—Specifying photo location 5m 49s
—Demo: Specifying photo location part 1 12m 34s
—Demo: Forcing gallery to show the photo 2m 54s
—Demo: Specifying photo location part 2 3m 18s
—Capture videos with ease 3m 40s
—Demo: Capture videos with ease 4m 22s
—Summary 2m 36s

Directly Accessing the Camera
- 42m 23s

—Introduction 1m 11s
—Pros and cons of direct camera access 1m 6s
—Determining camera support 5m 7s
—Demo: Determining camera support 3m 19s
—Accessing a camera 4m 52s
—Demo: Accessing a camera 15m 30s
—Managing a camera as a shared resource 2m 3s
—Demo: Managing a camera as a shared resource 6m 20s
—Summary 2m 55s

Viewing Camera Display
- 36m 8s

—Introduction 0m 58s
—Creating the camera preview 3m 19s
—Demo: Creating the camera preview 8m 33s
—Managing the camera preview 1m 8s
—Demo: Managing the camera preview 7m 4s
—Setting the preview orientation 2m 49s
—Demo: Setting the preview orientation 10m 35s
—Summary 1m 42s

Taking a Picture
- 19m 56s

—Introduction 0m 39s
—Steps in taking a photo 2m 46s
—Taking a photo 1m 29s
—Demo: Taking a photo 6m 0s
—Storing a photo 1m 26s
—Demo: Storing a photo 6m 31s
—Summary 1m 5s

Camera Control
- 49m 59s

—Introduction 1m 0s
—Camera behavior 3m 15s
—Photo resolution 1m 50s
—Demo: Photo resolution 13m 20s
—Photo meta-data - rotation and geotagging 5m 43s
—Demo: Photo meta-data - rotation and geotagging 5m 23s
—Zoom 4m 42s
—Demo: Zoom 11m 21s
—Summary 3m 25s

Recording Video
- 37m 10s

—Introduction 1m 11s
—MediaRecorder 1m 19s
—MediaRecorder state overview 2m 58s
—MediaRecorder setup 5m 11s
—Recording the video 0m 46s
—Demo: Setup and recording 9m 24s
—MediaRecorder cleanup 2m 1s
—Demo: MediaRecorder cleanup 2m 14s
—Managing camera orientation 0m 59s
—Demo: Managing camera orientation 2m 48s
—More on profiles 2m 9s
—Demo: More on profiles 3m 56s
—Summary 2m 14s

Media Store
- 32m 16s

—Introduction 0m 33s
—Media Store 1m 30s
—Media Scanner Service 5m 10s
—Demo: Scanning a file 7m 36s
—Thumbnails 1m 44s
—Demo: Accessing a thumbnial 3m 50s
—Getting thumbnail by filename 3m 2s
—Demo: Getting thumbnail by filename 6m 54s
—Summary 1m 57s