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Camera.StartPreview Method

Definition

Caution

deprecated

Starts capturing and drawing preview frames to the screen.

[Android.Runtime.Register("startPreview", "()V", "")]
[System.Obsolete("deprecated")]
public void StartPreview ();
[<Android.Runtime.Register("startPreview", "()V", "")>]
[<System.Obsolete("deprecated")>]
member this.StartPreview : unit -> unit
Attributes

Remarks

Starts capturing and drawing preview frames to the screen. Preview will not actually start until a surface is supplied with #setPreviewDisplay(SurfaceHolder) or #setPreviewTexture(SurfaceTexture).

If #setPreviewCallback(Camera.PreviewCallback), #setOneShotPreviewCallback(Camera.PreviewCallback), or #setPreviewCallbackWithBuffer(Camera.PreviewCallback) were called, Camera.PreviewCallback#onPreviewFrame(byte[], Camera) will be called when preview data becomes available.

Java documentation for android.hardware.Camera.startPreview().

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Applies to