Android: BroadcastReceiver intent to Detect Camera Photo Taken?

Question

I\'m working on an Android application which needs to perform an action each time a new image is taken with the phone. I don\'t want to take the image within my application

Answer 1

Quite an old question, if anyone still needs the solution try using

android.hardware.action.NEW_PICTURE

as your intent filter

<!-- Receiver for camera clicks -->
    <receiver
        android:name=".receivers.CameraEventReceiver"
        android:label="CameraEventReceiver">
        <intent-filter>

            <!-- <action android:name="com.android.camera.NEW_PICTURE" /> -->
            <action android:name="android.hardware.action.NEW_PICTURE" />

            <data android:mimeType="image/*" />
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>

It will return the Uri of the image in intent.getData() of its onReceive() function

Hope it helps

Answer 2

try this one this works for me

<receiver android:name=".pictureReceiver" >
        <intent-filter android:priority="10000" >
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.CAMERA_BUTTON" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>
</receiver>

Answer 3

Right now, I've gotten a BroadcastReceiver implemented that's currently listening for "android.intent.action.CAMERA_BUTTON". However, this doesn't seem to get called when I'm wanting it to.

That only gets broadcast if the foreground activity does not consume the event.