Class Camera

  Object
      Component
          Camera

public class Camera
extends Component

Camera component shows the camera preview feed and provides the logic to take a snapshot.

See Camera-example.

Constructor Summary

Camera(Style style)
Creates a new Camera component.

Method Summary

ByteArray	capture(List types) Takes a photo using phone's camera, with the given format specifications.
void	close() Closes camera and release allocated resources.
boolean	isAvailable() Checks if the platform supports camera

Methods inherited from class Component

add, appendText, clear, find, first, get, getAction, getData, getElement, getFlags, getImage, getLocation, getParent, getShell, getSize, getStyle, getText, getViewPort, hasLinefeed, indexOf, insert, isFocusable, isShown, isVisible, isWrapping, last, operator_get, operator_set, remove, remove, repaint, set, setAction, setData, setElement, setFlags, setImage, setLocation, setPreferredHeight, setPreferredSize, setPreferredWidth, setStyle, setText, size

Methods inherited from class Object

toString, equals, hashCode

Methods inherited from

equals, getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Camera

public Camera(Style style)

Creates a new Camera component.

Parameters:

style - Style to use

Method Detail

isAvailable

public boolean isAvailable()

Checks if the platform supports camera If the camera is unavailable the capture(List) will always return null.

capture

public ByteArray capture(List types)

Takes a photo using phone's camera, with the given format specifications.

Note that it is very likely that phone will ask user's permission to take the photo.

Parameters:

types - List of capture type Strings. When capture is requested by user the system attempts to use the image types contained in list, starting from first and returning the first successful capture. Only required format for Multimedia API is PNG. Type strings examples:

 encoding=png&width=320&height=200
 encoding=jpg&width=160&height=120
 encoding=png
 

Returns:

Byte array containing the captured image, or null if capture failed.

close

public void close()

Closes camera and release allocated resources.