Android Studio's emulator camera opening upside down?

Question

I'm running a Nexus 5, API 23, and opening the camera with:

    Intent captureIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);

However once this opens the camera appears upside down by default like this:

I've checked other threads which say to disable 'Use Host GPU' and to set the activity's screenOrientation to sensorPortrait but these haven't worked. Any ideas?

Spanker

Answer 1

In the Android Emulator, press the 3 dots (...). Then click on Virtual Sensors.

When in the menu, there are 4 presets. You want to press the first one, which is upright. You may also have to use the other (upside down) one.

Curtcurtail

I don't use Android Studio anymore so if anyone can confirm this works I'll mark this as the solution – Spanker

I had the same issue and had it working for a few minutes with the upright position, it works for me but sometimes you have to use the "upside-down" preset. Either this or that will 100% work. – Curtcurtail

Answer 2

I was having a problem with the camera being upside down for all apps, which strangely was fixed when I went into the emulator settings and unchecked "enable keyboard input"

Mandell

Surprisingly this worked. Seems like a bug in the emulator – Oxidize

Answer 3

You can try the hard way :

• There is a button in the side bar. Try using that

• CTRL + F11

• Mac : CMD + F11

Richellericher

That's not doing anything for me unfortunately @Richellericher – Spanker

what happens if you just open the camera from default camera app? – Richellericher

Also upside down – Spanker

I'm in the same boat with same setup. Did you ever wind up figuring this out? – Sogdiana

@Sogdiana No I never figured this out. It was for a university project where everyone experienced the same issue and nobody managed to resolve it, sorry! – Spanker

No worries, thanks for replying! I've given up as well :) – Sogdiana