Android how to show front camera (for mirror only)

Question

I want to show a front camera in a layout which is used for only mirror, I want only that and I might have few simple buttons over the camera layout. Note: I don't want to take picture or anything. Just want to show the front camera for mirror. Is there a best way to implement that. I used to try below code but the camera show in wrong rotation similar to landscape mode and the image is stretch.

    surfaceView.holder.addCallback(object : SurfaceHolder.Callback {
            private var mCamera:Camera? = null
            override fun surfaceDestroyed(holder: SurfaceHolder) {
                mCamera?.stopPreview()
                mCamera?.release()
                mCamera = null
            }

            override fun surfaceCreated(holder: SurfaceHolder) {
                mCamera = getCameraInstance()

                try {
                    mCamera?.setPreviewDisplay(holder)
                } catch (exception: IOException) {
                    mCamera?.release()
                    mCamera = null
                }

            }

            override fun surfaceChanged(holder: SurfaceHolder, format: Int, width: Int,
                                        height: Int) {
                mCamera?.startPreview()
            }
        })

fun getCameraInstance(): Camera? {
        var c: Camera? = null
        try {
            c = openFrontFacingCamera()
        } catch (e: Exception) {
        }

        return c
    }

    private fun openFrontFacingCamera(): Camera? {
        var cameraCount = 0
        var cam: Camera? = null
        val cameraInfo = Camera.CameraInfo()
        cameraCount = Camera.getNumberOfCameras()
        for (camIdx in 0 until cameraCount) {
            Camera.getCameraInfo(camIdx, cameraInfo)
            if (cameraInfo.facing == Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_FRONT) {
                try {
                    cam = Camera.open(camIdx)
                } catch (e: RuntimeException) {
//                    Log.e(FragmentActivity.TAG, "Camera failed to open: " + e.localizedMessage)
                }

            }
        }

        return cam
    }

Answer 1

Following code snippet helped to open front camera

private Camera openFrontFacingCamera() {
    int cameraCount = 0;
    Camera cam = null;
    Camera.CameraInfo cameraInfo = new Camera.CameraInfo();
    cameraCount = Camera.getNumberOfCameras();
    for (int camIdx = 0; camIdx<cameraCount; camIdx++) {
        Camera.getCameraInfo(camIdx, cameraInfo);
        if (cameraInfo.facing == Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_FRONT) {
            try {
                cam = Camera.open(camIdx);
            } catch (RuntimeException e) {
                Log.e("Your_TAG", "Camera failed to open: " + e.getLocalizedMessage());
            }
        }
    }
    return cam; }

setDisplayOrientation()

method can be used to rotate camera view. Try below code snippet to manage camera orientation.

int rotation = activity.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getRotation();
   int degrees = 0;

   switch (rotation) {
       case Surface.ROTATION_0: degrees = 0; break;
       case Surface.ROTATION_90: degrees = 90; break;
       case Surface.ROTATION_180: degrees = 180; break;
       case Surface.ROTATION_270: degrees = 270; break;
   }

   int result;
   if (info.facing == Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_FRONT) {
       result = (info.orientation + degrees) % 360;
       result = (360 - result) % 360;  // compensate the mirror
   } else {  // back-facing
       result = (info.orientation - degrees + 360) % 360;
   }
   camera.setDisplayOrientation(result);