Android™ for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach

13. Enhanced Slideshow App: Serializing Data, Taking Pictures with the Camera and Playing Video in a VideoView

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll:

• Use an Intent and content resolvers to allow the user to select videos from the device’s media library.

• Use the device’s rear-facing camera to take new pictures to add to the slideshow.

• Use SurfaceView, SurfaceHolder and Camera objects to display a photo preview with various color effects.

• Use an VideoView to play videos.

• Use Serializable objects to save and load slideshows.

• Save slideshows to the device with ObjectOutputStream and FileOutputStream.

• Load slideshows from the device with ...