Rotating a Camera SurfaceView to portrait

Question

I have looked up a few posts on changing the orientation of the camera with a surface view, but I have taken my code from the examples at:

http://developer.android.c

Answer 1

I was able to solve the rotation problem by putting the following code in onSurfaceChanged():

    if (mHolder.getSurface() == null) {
        // preview surface does not exist
        return;
    }

    // stop preview before making changes
    try {
        mCamera.stopPreview();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // ignore: tried to stop a non-existent preview
    }

    // make any resize, rotate or reformatting changes here
    if (this.getResources().getConfiguration().orientation != Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {

        mCamera.setDisplayOrientation(90);

    } else {

        mCamera.setDisplayOrientation(0);

    }
    // start preview with new settings
    try {
        mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(mHolder);
        mCamera.startPreview();

    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Error starting camera preview: " + e.getMessage());
    }

BUT this created another problem, or better put, didn't solve a problem-while oriented correctly, the preview image still only took up the same amount of space that the landscape view did. I ended up just giving up and forcing landscape orientation with:

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

in onCreate() and designed my layout for landscape. Best of luck, and I hope someone has an answer for this secondary problem!