Camera/picture orientation in Android

Question

I am working on an Android app that uses the phone's camera. When the picture is taken in a "standard orientation" (bottom of phone at the bottom or bottom of the phone to the right), the image received is as expected. On some phones, when the picture is taken in a "non-standard orientation" (bottom of the phone at the top or bottom of the phone to the left), the image received is upside down. On some phones, the camera application actually handles this and returns the image the expected way.

My question is, since it seems to depend on the phone (manufacturer), is there a way to detect this and rotate the image as need without having to keep a hard coded list of phone types?

Answer 1

You will need to set the rotation on the camera device in order to get the correctly rotated image. Try using -

public void setRotation (int rotation)

Check the sample code provided here