Camera.open() is not working android

Question

I am trying to write a custom camera application in android. For that I need to open the camera application.

for that i am tring following code..

Camera camera = Camera.open();

but is showing error like

method open undefined for type Camera

i did as suggested here http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.html#open(int)

any suggestion..

Thanks, Ravindra Gupta

Answer 1

You most likely imported the wrong camera class at the top of your source file, which is android.graphics.Camera.

You need android.hardware.Camera instead.

Thanks

Answer 2

I think you have not added the camera permission. See below - you need to add this in your manifest;

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.autofocus" />

Answer 3

Check your imports. I had a similar problem and the Camera object Eclipse chose for me was: import android.graphics.Camera; instead it should be: import android.hardware.Camera;