How to create Lomo / Retro effects in Android Camera Preview?

Question

Since Android 2.0 onwards, the camera API has supports few ColorEffect(s).

The list could be found here, from Effect Aqua onwards. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.Parameters.html#EFFECT_AQUA

The effect could be implemented as follows:

Camera.Parameters parameters = camera.getParameters();
parameters.setColorEffect(Camera.Parameters.EFFECT_AQUA);
camera.setParameters(parameters);

Apart from those supported effects, I am thinking to introduce Lomo or Retro effect in my application. Can anyone give some guidance on how to provide extra effects for the camera preview?

Code samples will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Camera preview formats discussion from android-developers group.