Question

I want to access the front and back camera at the same time. Is this possible? From what I tested, this could not be done. It crashes if an application is already accessing the back camera and another app is trying to access the front camera.

I found few previous posting here but there is no answer to this:

Can we access at a time Camera in multiple application?

Open android Front camera and Back camera at the same time

But what I don’t understand is why is there such a limitation?

Isn’t front and back cameras are two different pieces of hardware?

Or can this be done and am I wrong?

Thanks In Advance,
Perumal

Answer 1

From the documentation:

Your application should only have one Camera object active at a time.

The camera module is switched to either the front or back-facing camera. There is no design to launch both of them at the same time. HTC has confirmed this here. Sorry.