Android Camera in Portrait on SurfaceView

Question

Hello,

I tried several things to try to get the camera preview to show up in portrait on a SurfaceView. Nothing worked. I am testing on a Droid that has 2.0.1. I tried:

1) forcing the layout to be portrait by: this.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

2) using Camera.Parameters parameters = camera.getParameters(); parameters.set("orientation", "portrait"); parameters.setRotation(90); camera.setParameters(parameters);

Is there something else I can try? If this a bug in Android or the phone how can I make sure that this is the case so that I have proof to inform the client?

Thanks, Prasanna

Answer 1

There's no way to do this on many current devices, including the G1 and Droid. Take a look at the relevant bug report here:

• http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1193

Also see a comment from one of the Android engineers (Dave) here:

• http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/24dfa452ffc0e049