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How can you turn on the led light on the iphone 4?

I just want to be able to turn on the led light. Is there a simple way to do this, or am I going to need to, say, set up the phone to take a video, simulate it videoing with the light on, but not save the video? Something like that? Thanks. ...

Live camera data access In iOS 4

Prior to the release of the new SDK there has been some buzz about Apple finally providing access to live camera data: I've been reading through Apple's documentation but have not found any reference to this. Now that the NDA has been lifted, does anyone know where this new functionality is documented? ...

Showing a new view over the camera view

Hi All I am using UIImagePickerController to allow the user to take a picture. I have hidden the default camera controls and added my own buttons. All good so far. When one of these buttons is pressed I want it to load a setting view over the top where the user can change some settings and then return back to taking a picture. My butt...

Is it possible to access the camera's LEDs directly in Android?

I'm still pretty new to using Android, but I decided that my first application would be a simple flashlight app for my new Incredible. Unfortunately, it seems to be more difficult than I had originally thought. It seems that there's no way to access the LEDs through the SDK, at least not without a bunch of weird hacks to make the phone ...

iPhone - Using Display Recorder with integrated camera?

Hi, I want to use the app Display Recorder by Ryan Petrich to demonstrate my app. My app is using the camera image picker. When Display Recorder is enabled / activated the image picker always returns the last image that was taken before Display Recorder was activated. So I'm guessing that the screen recording blocks the camera to set th...

iPhone SDK: Have UIView over camera display

How can I have a UIView over a view that contains a live view from the camera? ...

Getting exposure values from camera on iPhone OS 4.0

Exposure values from camera can be acquired when you take picture (without saving it to SavedPhotos). A light meter application on iPhone does this, probably by using some private API. That application does it on iPhone 3GS only, so I guess it may be somehow related to EXIF data which is populated with this information when the image i...

Get fullscreen camera preview iPhone?

By default it gives a 320x426 (instead of 480) camera image. Any suggestions? Anybody solved (rescaling is not a really good option)? ...

can i take photos on-the-fly (from pc/mac) with a camera ?

i have two cameras fuji finepix S1000fd and canon powershot a470. and my question is, if i can (on my pc) see the objective of the camera and take photos directly from my pc/mac ... thank ya all ...

How do I use AVCaptureFlashMode

I'm making an app to allow me to stitch images together into a panoramic scene. I want to be able to turn the Flash LED on the iPhone 4 programatically. How can I do this? I read the documentation and discovered that I need to use AVCaptureFlashMode but I can't figure out how 2 use it? any help would be appreciated. Updated Code b...

I just want to turn the flash on for stitching photo's I'm trying to use AVCaptureDevice and AVCaptureFlashModeOn

-(IBAction)turningFlashOn:(id)sender { AVCaptureSession *captureSession = [[AVCaptureSession alloc] init]; AVCaptureDevice *videoCaptureDevice = [AVCaptureDevice defaultDeviceWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo]; NSError *error = nil; AVCaptureDeviceInput *videoInput = [AVCaptureDeviceInput deviceInputWithDevice:videoCaptureDevice error:&erro...

react to iphone camera changes

i'm searching for a way to analyze the camera's view live. the iphone should recognize and react to sudden changes in brightness. can you give me some hints? leave a comment if my question is not clear enough! ...

Best method to toggle the camera's flash on iOS 4?

What is the best method to toggle on/off an iPhone 4's camera flash? ...

Camera preview on Android - strange on Samsung Galaxy S

In my activity I show the camera preview on a surfaceView. It works perfectly fine on Nexus One and HTC Desire, but on Samsung Galaxy S I see strange lines, weird proportions and everything three times. see the Screenshot below. The issue seems to be similar to this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2053440/camera-preview-on-andro...

Access Camera through iPhone Web App

Hi, I understand that it is not quite possible to access webcam through HTML. So how about on the iPhone? Is it possible? ...

Problems with using PreviewCallback at Android 1.6

Hi, i'm developing an app for Android 1.6 on an Zii EGG Handheld. I need to get the preview image of the camera. So i tried to get the image with the PreviewCallback function, but the onPreviewFrame() method is never called. I can only see the preview image on the surface. But my code seems to be right accroding to the documentation and ...

BlackBerry ContentHandler SEND invoked directly from camera - where is data?

I've got a UiApp that's going to respond to ContentHandler SEND events like the SendMediaDemo, which is in the samples tree and documented here: http://docs.blackberry.com/en/developers/deliverables/11942/Create_BB_app_plays_media_from_a_user_734821_11.jsp Their code deals with getting data by opening up the file URL with getURL() and ...

python opencv: no image

Hi all, I am trying to capture from a Sony Handicam DCR-HC38, running the code below, and passing [-1 .. 3] to the CaptureFromCAM function. The code runs, but I get no image. Do I need to "wrap" the camera somehow? Skype recognizes the camera, but python/opencv won't. I'm running Windows Vista if that helps any. import cv cv.Named...

Are there developer APIs to hook into the camera connection kit for the iPad?

Does Apple offer any developer APIs for reading data from the camera connection kit? (either via USB or on a card thats plugged in?) ...

Can I build a mobile website that has access to the iphone camera?

Does webkit have access to the camera API on the iphone? What about other phones? I want to build a mobile website that enables users to click on a button that opens the camera, ask if you want to take a new picture or user an existing one (assume the former), take a picture, confirm the picture is good, then be routed back to website ...