Android Camera in Portrait on SurfaceView

Question

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 tr

Answer 1

i have a working solution for portrait mode working in 2.1 (tested on Desire) maybe less.

Activity screen orientation is set to portrait. (android:screenOrientation="portrait")

the camera parameters:

Camera.Parameters p = mCamera.getParameters();

 p.set("jpeg-quality", 100);
 p.set("orientation", "landscape");
 p.set("rotation", 90);
 p.setPictureFormat(PixelFormat.JPEG);
 p.setPreviewSize(h, w);// here w h are reversed
 mCamera.setParameters(p);

and the image will be portrait.

SurfaceHolder you use for camera must be at a size compatible with phone preview size usualy screen resolution.

Funny on Desire 2.2 is not working... Here is the fix:

   At surfaceCreated(..) or when you have this line
camera = Camera.open();
       add
camera.setDisplayOrientation(90);//only 2.2>

Camera.Parameters p = camera.getParameters();
    p.set("jpeg-quality", 100);
p.setRotation(90);
p.setPictureFormat(PixelFormat.JPEG);
p.setPreviewSize(h, w);
camera.setParameters(p);