android - use camera from within background service

Question

I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to use a camera video stream from within a background service rather than from a normal intent.

What I had in mind is this:

• start the service from my app
• this service accesses the video stream and extracts features continuously; depending on the features, it sends network packets (to localhost)
• user switches to another app - the service must still be running and extracting features!

Before trying to implement all that, I'd like to know if it was possible.

Thanks in advance

Nicola

Answer 1

yes its possible, check my answer and sample code on one similar thread

Open/Run Camera from background service in android