Apps Good starting tutorials

[Wancieho]

Over the weekend I was messing around with trying to access my phones camera through an Android app and try take a picture. I've never worked in Java and the extent of my mobile experience has been using Cordova.

I started to notice that no matter how many tutorials I worked with or sites I visited so many were quite badly done or simply were old and wouldnt work with my current Android Studio 2.* Even when I actually got something working Android Studio threw a notice that I shouldn't use *.*.camera as it was deprecated and that I should use *.*.camera2

So is there a reliable site I can use with up-to-date tutorials?

Even the introductory tutorials @ https://developer.android.com/training/index.html are not very well documented. I landed up going through the start and then decided to jump to the camera section and it doesn't explain things properly. If by some chance I have to follow every single step before getting to camera that's quite stupid cause I dont need to learn about multi-language support etc. I just need to write a basic app that opens the camera and takes a picture. If a section like using the camera has a dependancy on another section then again, it should be documented.

 

[Thom]

Welcome to Android Forums.

This thread was moved to this forum that is dedicated to discussing development question.

For starters ... check out the stickys at the top of this forum.

Good luck.

... Thom

 

[Deleted User]

Welcome to the fast moving world of Android development. Google change things around so much I have trouble keeping up. You might want to check the sample applications that come with Android Studio. Can't remember if there's a camera app there, but it's worth a look.
Google's official developer website is a good place to look, at least that's got the best chance of being up to date

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/camera.html

But as you've found, it doesn't always explain things properly.
Tutorial here, is this any good?

https://inducesmile.com/android/android-camera2-api-example-tutorial/

 

[Wancieho]

Welcome to the fast moving world of Android development. Google change things around so much I have trouble keeping up. You might want to check the sample applications that come with Android Studio. Can't remember if there's a camera app there, but it's worth a look.
Google's official developer website is a good place to look, at least that's got the best chance of being up to date

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/camera.html

But as you've found, it doesn't always explain things properly.
Tutorial here, is this any good?

https://inducesmile.com/android/android-camera2-api-example-tutorial/

Thanks LV426

 

[Wancieho]

Welcome to the fast moving world of Android development. Google change things around so much I have trouble keeping up. You might want to check the sample applications that come with Android Studio. Can't remember if there's a camera app there, but it's worth a look.
Google's official developer website is a good place to look, at least that's got the best chance of being up to date

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/camera.html

But as you've found, it doesn't always explain things properly.
Tutorial here, is this any good?

https://inducesmile.com/android/android-camera2-api-example-tutorial/

Just another quick question. If I wanted to take a picture on a loop at least once every 500ms and compress/size (without user interaction) and then send through a socket do you think that tutorial would be a good starting base? I just don't want to get started and head in a completely wrong direction like i'm meant to use video rather.

It's not for the Store, it will only be deployed to devices by myself so there's no concern about security/privacy.

 

[Deleted User]

yes I would say this can be adapted to do what you want.