Question

I am trying to access the camera in Android to get the live video. I am trying to set my Content View to camera_surface. However, Eclipse gives me error as camera_surface cannot be resolved or is not a field

My code is as follows:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.camera_surface);
            surfaceView = (SurfaceView) findViewById(R.id.surface_camera);
            surfaceHolder = surfaceView.getHolder();
            surfaceHolder.addCallback(this);
            surfaceHolder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS);
    }

Could anyone tell what is wrong?

Answer 1

The problem was that I needed to create a file called camera_surface.xml in the res->layout folder and that solved the problem.