Preview mode must have started before you can take a picture

Viktar Patotski Published at Dev

Viktar Patotski

We are getting such stacktraces in our application using cwac-camera:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Preview mode must have started before you can take a picture
at com.commonsware.cwac.camera.CameraView.takePicture(CameraView.java:329)
at com.commonsware.cwac.camera.CameraView.takePicture(CameraView.java:277)
at com.github.randoapp.camera.RandoCameraHost.onAutoFocus(RandoCameraHost.java:119)
at com.commonsware.cwac.camera.CameraView.onAutoFocus(CameraView.java:411)
at android.hardware.Camera$EventHandler.handleMessage(Camera.java:824)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4898)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1008)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:775)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

We believe that this can be happenning because of users pressing take picture too early. The solution is to disable button while preview is initializing and enable only when it's done. The question is: What event to use for button enabling? Is there event or callback sayong that preview is finally initialized?

CommonsWare

We believe that this can be happenning because of users pressing take picture too early

That is a distinct possibility.

What event to use for button enabling? Is there event or callback sayong that preview is finally initialized?

autoFocusAvailable() in your CameraHost is the best option at the moment. That is called just before the preview begins and inPreview is set to true.

I have filed an issue to do a better job than this.

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