How about View width and height instead of Display? On Sunday, July 22, 2012 12:31:21 PM UTC+1, Spooky wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:06:30AM -0700, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > > > Do you have a specific use case where you think they are the right way > to > > go? > > I use them for determining the maximum preview size for the camera > preview. Whether that's the right way to go or not, I can't say, but it > works nicely, and it's very simple. Just loop through the output of > camera.getSupportedPreviewSizes() and pick the last one where the > supported width and height are both lower than the display's width and > height. > > The Developer's Guide (at > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/camera.html) only says > something like "set preview size [etc] here." ... nothing about not using > display.width() and display.height() to find the upper limits, and > nothing about a different way to do so, either. The book, Pro Android > Media, does the same for determining the upper limits for the preview > size, and then, as I did, loops through the supported preview sizes to > find the max value. It seems to work fine, at least, for the devices > I've tested it on. > > In camera.parameters, there's a getPreferredPreviewSizeForVideo. but > that's the ideal size for supporting video recording. I haven't read > anything that says that you should just assume that the display size > is one of the supported preview sizes, nor would I make such an > assumption (though it does at least *appear* to be true). > > So everything seems to point back to using display.width() and > display.height() along with camera.getSupportedPreviewSizes() and > a "for" loop to determine the maximum preview size for a given device. > > So, correct me if I'm wrong, but that would seem to be at least one > valid use. And in this case, it seems to be not only the right way, > but THE way. > > Later, > --jim > > -- > THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 > 73 DE N5IAL (/4) MiSTie #49997 < Running Mac OS X Lion > > spooky1...@gmail.com ICBM/Hurr.: 30.44406N 86.59909W > > "The iPad is a status symbol for yuppies. The Android > is for people who actually want something that works." > > Android Apps Listing at http://www.jstrack.org/barcodes.html > >
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