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     16 
     17     <h2>This lesson teaches you to</h2>
     18     <ol>
     19       <li><a href="#TaskManifest">Request Camera Permission</a></li>
     20       <li><a href="#TaskCaptureIntent">Record a Video with a Camera App</a>
     21       <li><a href="#TaskVideoView">View the Video</a></li>
     22     </ol>
     23 
     24     <h2>You should also read</h2>
     25       <ul>
     26         <li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/media/camera.html">Camera</a></li>
     27         <li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/components/intents-filters.html">Intents and Intent
     28       Filters</a></li>
     29       </ul>
     30 
     31     <h2>Try it out</h2>
     32 
     33     <div class="download-box">
     34       <a href="http://developer.android.com/shareables/training/PhotoIntentActivity.zip"
     35 class="button">Download the sample</a>
     36       <p class="filename">PhotoIntentActivity.zip</p>
     37     </div>
     38   </div>
     39 </div>
     40 
     41 
     42 <p>This lesson explains how to capture video using existing camera
     43 applications.</p>
     44 
     45 <p>Your application has a job to do, and integrating videos is only a small
     46 part of it.  You want to take videos with minimal fuss, and not reinvent the
     47 camcorder. Happily, most Android-powered devices already have a camera application that
     48 records video. In this lesson, you make it do this for you.</p>
     49 
     50 
     51 
     52 <h2 id="TaskManifest">Request Camera Permission</h2>
     53 
     54 <p>To advertise that your application depends on having a camera, put a
     55 {@code <uses-feature>} tag in the manifest file:</p>
     56 
     57 <pre style="clear:right">
     58 &lt;manifest ... >
     59     &lt;uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera"
     60                   android:required="true" /&gt;
     61     ...
     62 &lt;/manifest>
     63 </pre>
     64 
     65 <p>If your application uses, but does not require a camera in order to function, set {@code
     66 android:required} to {@code false}. In doing so, Google Play will allow devices without a
     67 camera to download your application. It's then your responsibility to check for the availability
     68 of the camera at runtime by calling {@link
     69 android.content.pm.PackageManager#hasSystemFeature hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_CAMERA)}.
     70 If a camera is not available, you should then disable your camera features.</p>
     71 
     72 
     73 <h2 id="TaskCaptureIntent">Record a Video with a Camera App</h2>
     74 
     75 <p>The Android way of delegating actions to other applications is to invoke an {@link
     76 android.content.Intent} that describes what you want done. This process involves three pieces: The
     77 {@link android.content.Intent} itself, a call to start the external {@link android.app.Activity},
     78 and some code to handle the video when focus returns to your activity.</p>
     79 
     80 <p>Here's a function that invokes an intent to capture video.</p>
     81 
     82 <pre>
     83 static final int REQUEST_VIDEO_CAPTURE = 1;
     84 
     85 private void dispatchTakeVideoIntent() {
     86     Intent takeVideoIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_VIDEO_CAPTURE);
     87     if (takeVideoIntent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null) {
     88         startActivityForResult(takeVideoIntent, REQUEST_VIDEO_CAPTURE);
     89     }
     90 }
     91 </pre>
     92 
     93 <p>Notice that the {@link android.app.Activity#startActivityForResult
     94 startActivityForResult()} method is protected by a condition that calls
     95 {@link android.content.Intent#resolveActivity resolveActivity()}, which returns the
     96 first activity component that can handle the intent. Performing this check
     97 is important because if you call {@link android.app.Activity#startActivityForResult
     98 startActivityForResult()} using an intent that no app can handle,
     99 your app will crash. So as long as the result is not null, it's safe to use the intent. </p>
    100 
    101 
    102 <h2 id="TaskVideoView">View the Video</h2>
    103 
    104 <p>The Android Camera application returns the video in the {@link android.content.Intent} delivered
    105 to {@link android.app.Activity#onActivityResult onActivityResult()} as a {@link
    106 android.net.Uri} pointing to the video location in storage. The following code
    107 retrieves this video and displays it in a {@link android.widget.VideoView}.</p>
    108 
    109 <pre>
    110 &#64;Override
    111 protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent intent) {
    112     if (requestCode == REQUEST_VIDEO_CAPTURE && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
    113         Uri videoUri = intent.getData();
    114         mVideoView.setVideoURI(videoUri);
    115     }
    116 }
    117 </pre>
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