Question

Hi i am developing real time image processing application on android. I am using PreviewCallback to get image in every frame. When i get data in Tablet devices the data returns very big. So its too hard to work in large data in real time.
My question is, is there any way to get smaller resolution data from camera preview.

CAMERA PREVIEW CODE:

public void onPreviewFrame(byte[] data, Camera camera) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        Camera.Parameters params = camera.getParameters();

                        Log.v("image format", Integer.toString(params.getPreviewFormat()));
                        //Frame captureing via frameManager
                        frameManager.initCamFrame(params.getPreviewSize().width, params.getPreviewSize().height,
                                data);
                    }
                });

Answer 1

You can call parameters.setPreviewSize(width, height), but you want to do it before camera preview starts. And you need to use supported value, viz previous answer.

And you also should not call camera.getParameters() every frame, just do that once and save the values to some variable. You have some limited time in onPreviewFrame, because byte[] data is overwritten on each frame, so try to do only the important stuff here.

And you should use setPreviewCallbackWithBuffer, it quite improves performance – check this post.