Taking picture from camera without preview

Question

I am writing an Android 1.5 application which starts just after boot-up. This is a Service and should take a picture without preview. This app will log the ligh

Answer 1

In the "Working Example by Sam" (Thank you Sam... )

if at istruction "wm.addView(preview, params);"

obtain exception "Unable to add window android.view.ViewRoot -- permission denied for this window type"

resolve by using this permission in AndroidManifest: