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Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android, Second Edition

You're reading from   Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android, Second Edition Develop, test, and deliver fully-featured Android applications using Xamarin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785280375
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Anatomy of an Android App FREE CHAPTER 2. The Xamarin.Android Architecture 3. Creating the Points Of Interest App 4. Adding a List View 5. Adding a Details View 6. Making Your App Orientation-aware 7. Designing for Multiple Screen Sizes 8. Creating Data Storage Mechanisms 9. Making POIApp Location Aware 10. Adding the Camera App Integration 11. Publishing an App to the App Store Index

Capturing an image from POIDetailFragment

We are now ready to take on the task of capturing a photo. This will involve the following tasks:

  • Adding new user interface widgets to initiate capturing a photo and displaying it
  • Building a photo intent to navigate to an external camera app to capture a photo
  • Processing the results of the photo intent and displaying a photo once it is successfully captured

The following sections describe the details of each step.

Adding UI elements

There are a few new UI elements that we will need to add to support capturing an image; we need an ImageButton element to initiate the process of capturing an image, and we also need an ImageView element to display the captured POI image. The ImageButton widget can be added adjacent to the location and map buttons, and the ImageView element can be placed as the first widget above the Name field.

The following list shows the definition of the ImageView, which should be placed inside the LinearLayout before the POI name text...

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