Android: how to display camera preview with callback?

Question

What I need to do is quite simple, I want to manually display preview from camera using camera callback and I want to get at least 15fps on a real device. I don\'t even need

Answer 1

I think Michael's on the right track. First you can try this method to convert from RGB to Grayscale. Clearly it's doing almost the same thing as his,but a little more succinctly for what you want.

//YUV Space to Greyscale
static public void YUVtoGrayScale(int[] rgb, byte[] yuv420sp, int width, int height){
    final int frameSize = width * height;
    for (int pix = 0; pix < frameSize; pix++){
        int pixVal = (0xff & ((int) yuv420sp[pix])) - 16;
        if (pixVal < 0) pixVal = 0;
        if (pixVal > 255) pixVal = 255;
        rgb[pix] = 0xff000000 | (pixVal << 16) | (pixVal << 8) | pixVal;
    }
}

}

Second, don't create a ton of work for the garbage collector. Your bitmaps and arrays are going to be a fixed size. Create them once, not in onFramePreview.

Doing that you'll end up with something that looks like this:

    public PreviewCallback callback = new PreviewCallback() {
    @Override
    public void onPreviewFrame(byte[] data, Camera camera) {
        if ( (mSelectView == null) || !inPreview )
            return;
        if (mSelectView.mBitmap == null)
        {
            //initialize SelectView bitmaps, arrays, etc
            //mSelectView.mBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(mSelectView.mImageWidth, mSelectView.mImageHeight, Bitmap.Config.RGB_565);
           //etc

        }
        //Pass Image Data to SelectView
        System.arraycopy(data, 0, mSelectView.mYUVData, 0, data.length);
        mSelectView.invalidate();
    }
};

And then the canvas where you want to put it looks like this:

class SelectView extends View {
Bitmap mBitmap;
Bitmap croppedView;
byte[] mYUVData;
int[] mRGBData;
int mImageHeight;
int mImageWidth;

public SelectView(Context context){
    super(context);
    mBitmap = null;
    croppedView = null;
}

@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas){
    if (mBitmap != null)
    {
        int canvasWidth = canvas.getWidth();
        int canvasHeight = canvas.getHeight();
        // Convert from YUV to Greyscale
        YUVtoGrayScale(mRGBData, mYUVData, mImageWidth, mImageHeight);
            mBitmap.setPixels(mRGBData, 0, mImageWidth, 0, 0, mImageWidth, mImageHeight);
            Rect crop = new Rect(180, 220, 290, 400);
        Rect dst = new Rect(0, 0, canvasWidth, (int)(canvasHeight/2));
        canvas.drawBitmap(mBitmap, crop, dst, null);
    }
    super.onDraw(canvas);
}

This example shows a cropped and distorted selection of the camera preview in real time, but you get the idea. It runs at high FPS on a Nexus S in greyscale and should work for your needs as well.