How to turn on flashlight and front camera at the same time in android

Question

In one of the requirement in my app I need to pop up an activity containing the front camera preview,at this same time I need to turn on the flashlight as well.However I obs

Answer 1

Try to turn on the flashlight in background then open your front camera. actually you can turn front camera and flashlight in background.

Here how to open flashlight in background: this

Here how to turn on camera in background: this

Answer 2

Flashlight

 public void onToggleClicked(View view) {
    PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
    final Parameters p = camera.getParameters();
    if (isFlashSupported(pm)) {
        boolean on = ((ToggleButton) view).isChecked();
        if (on) {
            Log.i("info", "torch is turn on!");
            p.setFlashMode(Parameters.FLASH_MODE_TORCH);
            camera.setParameters(p);
            camera.startPreview();
        } else {
            Log.i("info", "torch is turn off!");
            p.setFlashMode(Parameters.FLASH_MODE_OFF);
            camera.setParameters(p);
            camera.stopPreview();
        }

Camera :

 ImageButton ib = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.buttonToast);
    ib.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            Intent i = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
            startActivityForResult(i, CAPTURE_IMAGE_CAPTURE_CODE);
        }
    });

Answer 3

The following code checks for the availability of a front camera:

private Camera openFrontFacingCameraGingerbread() {
    int cameraCount = 0;
    Camera cam = null;
    Camera.CameraInfo cameraInfo = new Camera.CameraInfo();
    cameraCount = Camera.getNumberOfCameras();
    for (int camIdx = 0; camIdx < cameraCount; camIdx++) {
        Camera.getCameraInfo(camIdx, cameraInfo);
        if (cameraInfo.facing == Camera.CameraInfo.CAMERA_FACING_FRONT) {
            try {
                cam = Camera.open(camIdx);
            } catch (RuntimeException e) {
                Log.e(TAG, "Camera failed to open: " + e.getLocalizedMessage());
            }
        }
    }

    return cam;
}

Then add the following permissions in the AndroidManifest.xml file:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" android:required="false" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.front" android:required="false" />

Note: This feature is available in Gingerbread(2.3) and Up Android Version.

I recommend using surfaceView like in this example to implement a working flashlight.

Hope this helps :)