Say Cheese: Building a Photo App for Your Android Device
Learn how to snap a picture and display it in your application
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
5 Megapixels at Your Service, If You Please
Today it is hard to think of a phone without a camera.
In fact we are just as likely to take a picture with our phone as we are to make a call.
And once we take a photo, we are quite likely to send it as a message to someone else, but that is a topic for another day!
In this column we are going to write a simple Android application which demonstrates taking a photo and displaying it to the screen of your phone.
The User Interface
Our application, which we name “Photo Booth” is very simple.
It contains only three “widgets” within a basic linear layout:
