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 ...

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