Calling the native camera application on Android

[Ao Yen]

Hello all,

In a nutshell I would like to call the native camera application on my Android phone from inside Kivy. Take a picture with that camera app and save it to a location that was defined in Kivy. After which I'd need to return to my Kivy app. The camera of my phone works inside Kivy using this example:
https://github.com/Davideddu/kivy-android-camera/blob/master/main.py

This works but there's no focussing ability, essentially making it useless. I imagine this needs to be done through pyjnius. Any ideas?

[Alexander Taylor]

The actual android process involves calling the camera intent and somehow receiving the picture back from it, and you can do it all using pyjnius.

Kivy's plyer project (https://github.com/kivy/plyer) actually already has wrapped this in a python interface, or you can check out the source to see the actual pyjnius code used to do it.

[Ao Yen]

The plyer camera facade does exactly what I needed.
There's no camera example available on the project Git so I've adapted this example.

Nice work Kivy team :)

[Ahmed Ibrahim]

Hi All,

I am trying to add camera to my app. I am developing the app using kivy, and using buildozer to build it for android. I tried the example app mentioned here but it crashes once the app starts on the phone. After searching for that problem I concluded most likely the root cause is the new python for android package. Some recommendations were to use the old_toolchain.

I haven't solved this problem yet, so please if you still having this app up and running using the latest buildozer version please help me.

[Clemo Clemo]

Are you using windows?

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