Zoom Camera2 Preview using TextureView

Question

i have a Problem with my Preview Zoom for the Camera2 API. I am using a TextureView.

I want to zoom only the preview Stream that was showed in the TextureView.

Answer 1

Thanks to @arin 's answer, I made an improved version.

His code is basically working, but there are 2 problems:
1) Readability - actually I don't know what is going on calculating the Rect zoom
2) In my Android 7.1.1 device, the preview will freeze if the zoom is big to a certain extent. Since I solved this problem with the code below, I am pretty sure it is because the original code allowed over-zooming beyond camera's maximum zoom ratio.
(In fact, I don't know why he needs to apply *10 on the ratio returned by CameraCharacteristics)

Below are my codes: (I do this all inside my custom TextureView, which also stores my Camera2 objects and logics):

Related Member variables:

protected CameraCharacteristics cameraCharacteristics;
protected CameraCaptureSession captureSession;
protected CaptureRequest.Builder previewRequestBuilder;

//Zooming
protected float fingerSpacing = 0;
protected float zoomLevel = 1f;
protected float maximumZoomLevel;
protected Rect zoom;

Right after you get CameraCharacteristics from CameraManager, probably in some initial setup:

maximumZoomLevel = cameraCharacteristics.get(CameraCharacteristics.SCALER_AVAILABLE_MAX_DIGITAL_ZOOM);

override onTouchEvent:

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    try {
        Rect rect = cameraCharacteristics.get(CameraCharacteristics.SENSOR_INFO_ACTIVE_ARRAY_SIZE);
        if (rect == null) return false;
        float currentFingerSpacing;

        if (event.getPointerCount() == 2) { //Multi touch.
            currentFingerSpacing = getFingerSpacing(event);
            float delta = 0.05f; //Control this value to control the zooming sensibility
            if (fingerSpacing != 0) {
                if (currentFingerSpacing > fingerSpacing) { //Don't over zoom-in
                    if ((maximumZoomLevel - zoomLevel) <= delta) {
                        delta = maximumZoomLevel - zoomLevel;
                    }
                    zoomLevel = zoomLevel + delta;
                } else if (currentFingerSpacing < fingerSpacing){ //Don't over zoom-out
                    if ((zoomLevel - delta) < 1f) {
                        delta = zoomLevel - 1f;
                    }
                    zoomLevel = zoomLevel - delta;
                }
                float ratio = (float) 1 / zoomLevel; //This ratio is the ratio of cropped Rect to Camera's original(Maximum) Rect
                //croppedWidth and croppedHeight are the pixels cropped away, not pixels after cropped
                int croppedWidth = rect.width() - Math.round((float)rect.width() * ratio);
                int croppedHeight = rect.height() - Math.round((float)rect.height() * ratio);
                //Finally, zoom represents the zoomed visible area
                zoom = new Rect(croppedWidth/2, croppedHeight/2,
                        rect.width() - croppedWidth/2, rect.height() - croppedHeight/2);
                previewRequestBuilder.set(CaptureRequest.SCALER_CROP_REGION, zoom);
            }
            fingerSpacing = currentFingerSpacing;
        } else { //Single touch point, needs to return true in order to detect one more touch point
            return true;
        }
        captureSession.setRepeatingRequest(previewRequestBuilder.build(), captureCallback, null);
        return true;
    } catch (final Exception e) {
        //Error handling up to you
        return true;
    }
}

And the getFingerSpacing method:

private float getFingerSpacing(MotionEvent event) {
    float x = event.getX(0) - event.getX(1);
    float y = event.getY(0) - event.getY(1);
    return (float) Math.sqrt(x * x + y * y);
}

Finally don't forget to set the crop region when you actually take the photo. My code is base on this Camera2Basic, I do this inside the captureStillPicture() method:

        //Zoom
        if (zoom != null) {
            captureBuilder.set(CaptureRequest.SCALER_CROP_REGION, zoom);
        }