How to store byte[] from Android Camera onPictureTaken method within application for later use

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Published on 2012-07-08T03:11:59Z Indexed on 2012/07/08 3:15 UTC
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I am writing a larger Android application and I use the camera within the app. All I want to do with the camera is have the user take a picture, then start a new activity to show that image and allow the user to decide if they want to keep the image or not. I am having the hardest time figuring out how to simply store the byte[] data from the onPictureTaken method so that I can display it to the user in the next activity. I have tried many different routes and none of them have worked. The last thing I tried was creating a globalsettings class that extends the Application class and creating a byte[] field within it to store the byte[] from the camera so that I could use it within another activity, but my global variable is still not getting set. My CameraActivity code is shown below:

public class CameraActivity extends Activity
{
    CameraPreview Preview;
    Intent intent;
    byte[] image;
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.cameralayout);
        Preview = new CameraPreview(this);
        ((FrameLayout)findViewById(R.id.uxfmlayPreview)).addView(Preview);
        intent = new Intent(this, PostCaptureActivity.class);
    }

    public void uxbtnCaptureSnap_Click(View v)
    {
        Preview.DeviceCamera.setPreviewCallback(null);
        Preview.DeviceCamera.takePicture(shutterCallback, rawCallback,   jpegCallback);
        startActivity(intent);
        finish();
    }

    public void uxbtnCaptureExit_Click(View v)
    {
        Intent i = new Intent(this, ExploreMenuActivity.class);
        setResult(RESULT_OK);
        startActivity(i);
        finish();
    }

    ShutterCallback shutterCallback = new ShutterCallback()
    {
    public void onShutter() {}
    };

    PictureCallback rawCallback = new PictureCallback() 
    {
    public void onPictureTaken(byte[] data, Camera camera) {}
    };

    PictureCallback jpegCallback = new PictureCallback() 
    {
        public void onPictureTaken(byte[] data, Camera camera)
        {
            ((GlobalSettings)getApplication()).setGlobalImage(data);
            camera.release();
            camera = null;

        }
    };
}

Here is my code from my PostCaptureActivity onCreate() method where I attempt to convert and set the image as the source for an imageview:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.postcapturelayout);
    SnapShot = ((ImageView)findViewById(R.id.uximgSnapshot));
    if(((GlobalSettings)this.getApplication()).getGlobalImage() != null)
    {
        Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(((GlobalSettings)this.getApplication()).getGlobalImage(), 0, ((GlobalSettings)this.getApplication()).getGlobalImage().length);
        SnapShot.setImageBitmap(b);
    }
    else
    {
        Toast.makeText(this, "Oops! Picture cannot be saved", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}

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