I have no experience with this interface, but it looks like you can send the preview to an OpenGL texture rather than the SurfaceView. A texture can be copied to conventional memory with the OpenGL API.
On Apr 17, 10:46 pm, Taylor Niver <tniver1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I asked a question yesterday but didn't get much guidance (at least not > enough to get me where I need to be), so I figured it would be best to even > know if exactly what I want is possible. I currently have a code that opens > the camera and displays it over 'Preview' onto a SurfaceView. I need to do > some off-android vision processing so, is it possible to extract a frame > from the surfaceview? And if I can extract a frame, what type of variable > would it be stored at? Constantly taking pictures, writing them to a file, > and then sending the image over BT doesn't seem possible. > > Thanks in advance! > Taylor -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en