I want to start a service only when a new picture is captured from the phone camera in android. How do I go about doing that? Currently, I am running a background task that runs every 3 seconds to check if a new picture has been clicked.
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35859816/how-to-listen-new-photos-in-android – ADM Feb 19 '19 at 04:00
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Maybe `ContentObserver` is what you are looking for. This answer might help https://stackoverflow.com/a/40066666/7976274 – ankuranurag2 Feb 19 '19 at 08:34
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Thank you. I'll look into this – Aman Agarwal Feb 19 '19 at 11:55
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You can have tracks for image clicks then check those tracks every 3 seconds.
final boolean hasClicked = false;
new View.OnClickListener() { //image onclick listener
hasClicked = true;
}
new Timer.schedule(new TimerTask() {
if ( hasClicked ) {
// start your service
}
}, 3000, 3000);
If you need to track how many times the user clicked the image before the interval you can make a counter for it. be careful about the spam clicks.
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This is what I am already doing. I need to know how can i add a trigger to the camera(dcim) folder so that my service fires whenever a new image is added to it. – Aman Agarwal Feb 19 '19 at 04:34
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There are currently no APIs for logging and monitoring camera activity, probably for privacy and security reasons
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