How can we lock the camera screen orientation during the camera capture process?
android, android-4.2-jelly-bean, cameracapturetask, screen-orientation
Solution
Did you try blocking the orientation from the AndroidManifest ? by adding the below line in your camera activity
<activity android:label="@string/activity_name" android:screenOrientation="portrait" />
or
<activity android:label="@string/activity_name" android:screenOrientation="landscape" />
Problem
Our camera takepicture takes around 10-15 seconds (due to custom camera hardware). What I need is during this process of 10-15 seconds, I would not want the user to change the screen orientation. I have placed the takepicture call in doInBackground of Async task. In the onPreExecute() method I have placed `setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_NOSENSOR);` And in onPostExecute I placed ``` setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR); ``` This solution doesn't work for me and causes the camera and device to be crashed and I had to reboot the device.