The android image viewer look and feel tutorial is an introduction to a new tutorial series for beginners to android. Where the viewers will be shown how to create a basic android application that  loads an image thumbnail and then displays it on the full screen. This android tutorial series targeted towards beginners to android who […]

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This android tutorial series is about explaining how to do the android camera2 api raw capture. Where we show how to capture the raw image to a file. This tutorial is a follow on from this one where the setup for the application is done. Get Code The code is now on github you can […]

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Tutorial that describes how to upgrade the android camera2 api to android marshmallow. For this android tutorial we need camera & write storage permissions. The android camera2 api application requires in theory three permissions to function, read external storage access for the recyclerview gallery, camera permission to access the camera2 services and write external storage permission for saving the […]

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This android tutorial series is about explaining how to do the android camera2 api raw setup. Where the android application will be capturing raw images. Get Code This code has been based on the android camera2 api app tutorial series that can be found here The code to start this tutorial is on github here https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Tag camera2-write-swap-fix […]

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Different types of hardware can stress an application in different ways like the nexus 5x so I took the opportunity to do some android camera2 api bug fixes Get Code The code is now on github you can get it from here https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Tag camera2-write-swap-fix or else run this command git clone https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git –branch camera2-write-swap-fix Bug fixes […]

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In the android camera2 api preview orientation episode we provide orientation support for the preview screen that affects some none nexus devices. Get Code The code is now on github you can get it from here https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Tag camera2-preview-orientation or else run this command git clone –branch camera2-preview-orientation https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Code Samples CamaraIntentActivity Implement the transform […]

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In this tutorial we focus on implementing the android camera2 api update gallery so that the latest captured images will be displayed in the gallery. This is slightly complicated for CameraCaptureSession callback is currently being executed in the background thread handler therefore making the RecyclerView and Adapter members not accessible. The quick solution to this […]

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This android tutorial describes the steps involved for the android camera2 api capture still image. Get Code You can get it from here https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Tag camera2-still-capture or else run this command git clone —branch camera2-still-capture https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Code Samples Clean up the ImageReader resource when the application is closed private void closeCamera() { if(mCameraCaptureSession != null) […]

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This tutorial describes setting up the android camera2 api image reader which provides the surface for capturing a still image. Get Code You can get it from here https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Tag camera2-imagereader or else run this command git clone —branch camera2-imagereader https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Code Sampes Create File, ImageReader, ImageReader.OnAvailableListener & ImageSaver members private static File mImageFile; private […]

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This android tutorial describes how to obtain the android camera2 api focus lock, which is required prior to capturing a still image. GET CODE You can get it from here https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git Tag camera2-lock-focus or else run this command git clone —branch camera2-lock-focus https://github.com/mobapptuts/recyclerview_image_gallery.git CODE SAMPLES Add some samples to reference the various camera states private […]

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