I'm a bit lost here with your question. It sounds like any of the following possibilities:
1. You want to display a picture from the SD card using the Gallery app (or any installed image viewer) 2. You want to implement a picture slideshow 3. You want to overlay a picture on top of a camera preview surface (the camera video "live stream" so to say) For solving 1: > Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); > intent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(thePictureFile), "image/jpeg"); > startActivity(intent); > For solving 2: You could use the Gallery widget and provide it with a SpinnerAdapter that creates ImageViews. For solving 3: Create a full screen activity with a SurfaceView which will be the "canvas" for the camera preview. Put another view that displays your picture(s) on top of that. If you're playing with the Camera component for the first time, you should read the documentation<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.html>. The first time I was playing around with it I made a tiny mistake that crashed my device so hard that some data was corrupted and it wouldn't reboot properly anymore, so I had to do a factory reset. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en