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Android can't do a camera overlay?

Am I understanding this correctly? Can Android not handle a camera overlay? Not even a simple one like text and maybe a custom button to fire the shutter?

— asked August 19th 2010 by Alexander Stone
  • android
  • camera
  • overlay
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  • That is correct. Not at this time.

    — answered August 19th 2010 by Don Thorp
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    • Is this coming any time soon..?

      — commented November 16th 2010 by George Marmaridis
    • Are there any plans to change this in the near future?

      — commented January 2nd 2011 by Jason E. Gyurkovitz
  • It seems that it's fixed in the upcoming 1.7 SDK:

    http://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/TIMOB-1781

    I haven't tried it but the Titanium SDK 1.7 RC1 can be downloaded from here:

    http://preview.appcelerator.com/studio/

    — answered June 7th 2011 by Jostein Austvik Jacobsen
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    • SDK 1.7.1 with Android 2.2 still throws an error (error code 0) when trying to open camera. I'd love to provide debugging info, but I'm not sure where that belongs or what to include. help?

      — commented July 19th 2011 by Andy Weber
  • any news in camera overlays for android?

    — answered October 7th 2011 by Konrad Bajtyngier
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  • I was able to get a overlay to work on Android with a click eventhandler to capture the image. However, on my test android device (Nexus One) the autofocus does not work when an overlay is used. Thus, I'm unable to use an overlay since the photo comes out blurry.

    — answered November 22nd 2011 by Jon Brelig
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  • overlay workes but the image is distorted.

    — answered March 11th 2012 by Marzpet Vardanyan
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  • @Michael Ionita could you please share you plugin for Phonegap to do camera overlays please!!

    — answered October 17th 2012 by Gareth Nel
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  • bump

    any progress for overlays in android?

    — answered February 5th 2011 by josh tischer
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    • Also interested

      — commented March 25th 2011 by Guillaume LA
  • I can't get this work either at the moment.. is it still broken for android?

    — answered July 27th 2011 by James Holloway
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  • I'm also interested!
    I developed a Plugin for phonegap to do that - hope you guys implement it right into your apis.

    Any news on that?

    — answered June 7th 2011 by Michael Ionita
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