How to Capture a Picture without Previewing in Android Studio use camera2 api
Google is protecting their users from this feature. You are no longer going to be able to do this as of Android Pie (API 28). This was first reported as of February of 2018.
"According to a source code commit spotted by XDA Developers, Android P will detect and prevent background applications from accessing the camera."
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-p-camera-restrictions-839076/
https://www.xda-developers.com/android-p-background-apps-camera/
Since this is going to limit your ability to upgrade this feature, as well as possibly getting your app disabled in the Play store, I'd avoid doing this.
You don't have to Display the previews but you need to go through at least 5-6 previews before the image is even decent. You run into a lot of issues where the image is too dark because it hasn't taken in enough light or it is out of focus. So you would need to cycle through many images in the preview. You don't need to display them. Only then can you take an actual picture using the STILL_CAPTURE template.
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I am trying to build an Android app with Android Studio(Java), that based on a tensorflow model(pretrained in python) is able to classify the emotion of the person standing in front of the device's camera. My app needs to take the frame, apply some opencv operations like facedetection, grayscale, resize, crop, and histogram equlisation, and after that, giving the result to the model, it will predict the emotion. I have an activity that is showing the camera, but i dont know how to do all this frame manipulation and prediction in the background, when on the phone's screen the preview of the camera and the tags of the predictions, are the only things showing.
I managed to do this on PC very easly, running on the max FPS of the webcam, so i think it should be possible on the phone too.
Is there any similar project that i can get inspiration from? or does anyone know a bit of documentation or a way to do something like this ?
I would suggest checking out the Google ML Vision API's, they can easily be integrated into an Android App and are very accurate. There are many API's like the image labeller and facial labeller. Just check them out here:
https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/vision/face-detection/android
Hope I could help!
I'm doing a school project as a team, but none of us have never developed or even worn smartwatches.
We want to get the number of "tap" on a smartwatch's locked screen but we don't find out if that's possible.
Do you know a way to get the number of "tap" on a locked smartwatch screen?
If this is not possible, can we display a constant notification and retrieve the number of "tap" on this notification?
I'm using a Moto 360 with Android 6.0.1 and Android Wear 1.4.0.
Thank you in advance.
I would advise everyone on the team get a chance to the use watch just to understand the user experience. Watches are very battery limited devices and will always try to go into low power mode as often as possible.
Do you know a way to get the number of "tap" on a locked smartwatch screen?
Tapping normally wakes up watch, either from full screen off or lower power ambient mode. If you want to capture taps/button press you can create a watch app which when active will receive taps/button presses. I'm not quite sure if watch face can capture taps, and if it did it my guess would be after the watch face is fully on, but that would be another place to look.
If this is not possible, can we display a constant notification and retrieve the number of "tap" on this notification?
Custom watch face can allow display of custom content. Alternatively as a watch app you can show what you want.
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The Moto 360 came out in 2014 and was one of first Android Wear watches available. The latest code samples & codelabs from Google are for Wear OS 2.0. You can look back in the commit history for old versions of samples which may be more compatible with Android Wear 1.4
Also from this Android Wear Notice May 2015 always on apps became possible so that might work for your project/use case.
After a user opens my application I don't want them to be able to get out. So when they press the home or back button it doesn't let them exit the app. I know there are ways using a service to keep the app always running in the background, but I don't even want them to even exit.
Is this even possible, if so how? Without having to hack the kernel.
I know this sounds odd, but it is not for a commercial app, but for my lab, it will never be on GooglePlay. The tablets will be given to little kids and they will take a test on it, so I can't have them using youtube or anything else.
Related post: Android, How to make the task of the app unclosable? Only closable by task killing
The answer by CommonWare seems to indicate that kernel hacking is the only way, but is it?
Also I am using Android L.
there is no official support yet - there will be support with android L via the Task locking API
The L Developer Preview introduces a new task locking API that lets
you temporarily restrict users from leaving your app or being
interrupted by notifications. This could be used, for example, if you
are developing an education app to support high stakes assessment
requirements on Android. Once your app activates this mode, users will
not be able to see notifications, access other apps, or return to the
Home screen, until your app exits the mode.
https://developer.android.com/preview/api-overview.html
EDIT: as you said you use L this got obsolete - but I leave it here as a hint for others
said that - you are also able to get this kind of work without root today if you have to ( e.g. kiosk mode app on a certain hardware ). It is not simple - and no solution that works for all devices - but if you need it you can get it work with tricks like:
- reacting on home-screen intent ( and setting it as default )
- when you go to background - bring your self foreground again
- ..
It seems google has some thing called COSU for setting up single-purpose devices
Android 5.0 Lollipop introduced two new ways to configure Android
devices for a single purpose:
With app pinning, the device user can temporarily pin specific apps to the screen.
With lock task mode, a user can’t escape the app and the Home and Recents buttons are hidden. Additionally, lock task mode gives the IT
administrator a more robust way to manage COSU devices, as discussed
below.
and
As an IT administrator, you can configure Android 6.0 Marshmallow and
later devices as corporate-owned, single-use (COSU) devices. These are
Android devices used for a single purpose, such as digital signage,
ticket printing, point of sale, or inventory management. To use
Android devices as COSU devices, you need to develop Android apps that
your customers can manage.
from here
and there is a code lab for it here
for earlier versions of android here i founded How-To Create a Working Kiosk Mode in Android which shows some hacks for disabling buttons and restarting the application after boot and lock. note that most of these hacks, don't work on android 6 and later
I'm looking to build a companion photo capture app for my photo capture website. I was planning to do this with phone gap.
Upon triggering the camera I want to grab a frame (a still, really) up to five times a second and send it to the server (barring any surprises, The sending part should already be dealt with in code I have). I suppose the realtime video from the camera itself should be displayed to the user as well, though I could just use the stop motion frames for that part.
Unfortunately, according to the phone gap docs, one can only launch the phone's cam app, manually take a picture, then return the user to the app.
I am looking into plugins, but I don't see any massive phonegap plugin repository out there, so I am not sure where to begin. I am just rambling now, so here is a list of bulleted questions:
Is there a plugin out there that does something like this already?
Is there a giant repository of phone gap plugins that I am too foolish to find?
If I try to roll my own java plugin (this is for an android app), what am I really getting myself into? Will I need to know enough to just make the damned thing native? I am pretty exclusively in the JS world at the moment, and am trying to get this out the door asap.
Am I missing something and there is a way to to this with vanilla phone gap?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
The phonegap plugins are here:
https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins
Is it possible to capture the entire screen from Android application code? I'm developing an application like VNC for Android platform.
Regards
I think that depends on what you are trying to capture. I'm sure you can use Moss's method to create a screenshot from your own application - that is, something you render yourself.
As I understand it however, capturing from other views, apps, etc. is designed to be impossible for security reasons. This is to avoid apps being able to take screen shots from other apps, which would make it easy to steal sensitive data.
yes it is. You just need to create a canvas and assign it a Bitmap, then draw to that canvas instead of the canvas you use in your onDraw method and save the bitmap on the SDcard for example.
Just to renind you that this method will work if you handle the drawing, so you should use a custom home screen for it to capture wether you want. (just get the default android home screen :D).
I don't have personal experience with it, but this open source project sounds like it might either solve your problem, or provide you clues as to which API to use:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ashot/
Screen capturing tool for Android
handsets connected via USB to a
desktop/laptop. It is great for
fullscreen presentations, product
demos, automatic screen recording, or
just a single screenshot. Without
root.