Front Camera Is Not Opening In Android Platform

When I click on capture photo icon in my application, by default it should open front camera but every time it is opening back camera. I need to change it manually to open front c

Solution 1:

Change to use front camera

intent.putExtra("android.intent.extras.CAMERA_FACING",0);

Hardcoding this values is a bad idea and should better use

intent.putExtra("android.intent.extras.CAMERA_FACING", Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_FRONT)

Solution 2:

This is code to open front camera My javafile :

publicclassMainActivityextendsActivity {
    intTAKE_PHOTO_CODE=0;
    publicstaticintcount=0;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */@OverridepublicvoidonCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        // Here, we are making a folder named picFolder to store// pics taken by the camera using this application.finalStringdir= Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES) + "/picFolder/";
        Filenewdir=newFile(dir);
        newdir.mkdirs();

        Buttoncapture= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
        capture.setOnClickListener(newView.OnClickListener() {
            publicvoidonClick(View v) {

                // Here, the counter will be incremented each time, and the// picture taken by camera will be stored as 1.jpg,2.jpg// and likewise.
                count++;
                Stringfile= dir + count + ".jpg";
                Filenewfile=newFile(file);
                   try {
                        newfile.createNewFile();
                    } catch (IOException e1) {
                        e1.printStackTrace();
                    }
                UrioutputFileUri= Uri.fromFile(newfile);

                IntentcameraIntent=newIntent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
                cameraIntent.putExtra("android.intent.extras.CAMERA_FACING",1);
               // cameraIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, outputFileUri);

                startActivityForResult(cameraIntent, TAKE_PHOTO_CODE);
            }
        });
    }

    @OverrideprotectedvoidonActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

        if (requestCode == TAKE_PHOTO_CODE && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
            Log.d("CameraDemo", "Pic saved");
        }
    }
}

my Xml File:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><RelativeLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"tools:context="aavid.rks.stackovewrflow.MainActivity"><Buttonandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:text="Click pic Using Front camera"android:id="@+id/button"android:layout_alignParentTop="true"android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"android:layout_alignParentStart="true"android:layout_marginLeft="93dp"android:layout_marginStart="93dp"android:layout_marginTop="133dp" /></RelativeLayout>

two permission needed :-

<uses-permissionandroid:name="android.permission.CAMERA"/><uses-permissionandroid:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>

Solution 3:

private Camera openFrontFacingCameraGingerbread() {
    intcameraCount=0;
    Cameracam=null;
    Camera.CameraInfocameraInfo=newCamera.CameraInfo();
    cameraCount = Camera.getNumberOfCameras();
    for (intcamIdx=0; camIdx < cameraCount; camIdx++) {
        Camera.getCameraInfo(camIdx, cameraInfo);
        if (cameraInfo.facing == Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_FRONT) {
            try {
                cam = Camera.open(camIdx);
            } catch (RuntimeException e) {
                Log.e(TAG, "Camera failed to open: " + e.getLocalizedMessage());
            }
        }
    }
        return cam;
}

Add the following permissions in the AndroidManifest.xml file:

<uses-permissionandroid:name="android.permission.CAMERA" /><uses-featureandroid:name="android.hardware.camera"android:required="false" /><uses-featureandroid:name="android.hardware.camera.front"android:required="false" />

Solution 4:

I think you must add this in your onCreate() method :

@Overridepublic void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
    if (currentCameraId ==Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_BACK) {
        currentCameraId =Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_FRONT;
    } else {
        currentCameraId =Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_BACK;
    }
    camera =Camera.open(currentCameraId);
    camera.setDisplayOrientation(90);
    try {
        camera.setPreviewDisplay(surfaceHolder); 
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
   camera.startPreview();

It worked for me. Hope so it might be helpful for you too.