Having two SurfaceViews!?

himym · by **himym** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:29 pm

Hi everybody,
I am relatively new to this whole android thing, so any kind of help is very much appreciated.
My problem is: I have a camera-surfaceview, which brings me my live camerastream on the display. Now i like to add some dynamic content on top of it. I was thinking about having another SurfaceView and show the content in a Canvas. Unfortunatelly the one SurfaceView always overrides the other one, meaning I only can see the first one which is added to my View.
Is there any possibility two show both Views at the same time, or setting the second SurfaceView to be transparent?

Thanks a lot in advance
Regards

chimaera · by **chimaera** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:05 am

Hi,

The simplest way is to use the same SurfaceView.

In your rendering thread, you'll have to lock the canvas:

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Canvas canvas = holder.lockCanvas();
 
...
 
holder.unlockCanvasAndPost(canvas);
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The Camera will do the same when you do:

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mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(holder);
 
mCamera.startPreview();
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So you won't have locking issues.

A another solution is to use a RelativeLayout:

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main_layout = (RelativeLayout) LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.main, null, false);
 
        main_layout.addView(cameraview, 0);
 
        main_layout.addView(overlayview, 1);
 
        setContentView(main_layout);
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