Take Picture without preview Android

Question

I would like to take a picture without any preview. I used this code but I\'m getting an error:

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Answer 1

Use this permissions :

And you can instantiate a Camera object using this

Camera mycamera = Camera.open();

You can try the method described here is very simple if you are into simplicity:

http://developer.android.com/training/camera/photobasics.html