Xamarin Community Toolkit cameraview Save file

Question

Hi

How can I save the image captured with XamarinCommunityToolkit CameraView?

    private void cameraView_MediaCaptured(object sender, Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.UI.Views.MediaCapturedEventArgs e)
    {

    }

Here I have e.Image and e.ImageData, I would like to save this on a file.
I would also set the resolution of the image. Is it possible?
Thanks
Alessandro

Answer 1

Hi alessandrocaliaro,

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To save the image as file, you can create an interface as follows and implement it on both Android and iOS.

public interface ISaveService  
{  
    void SaveFile(string fileName, byte[] data);  
}  

Android:

[assembly: Xamarin.Forms.Dependency(typeof(SaveService))]  
namespace cameraviewDemo.Droid  
{  
    public class SaveService: ISaveService  
    {  
        void ISaveService.SaveFile(string fileName, byte[] data)  
        {  
            string picPath = Path.Combine(Android.OS.Environment.ExternalStorageDirectory.AbsolutePath, Android.OS.Environment.DirectoryPictures);  
            string filePath = Path.Combine(picPath, fileName);  
            File.WriteAllBytes(filePath, data);  
        }  
    }  
}  

iOS:

[assembly: Xamarin.Forms.Dependency(typeof(SaveService))]  
namespace cameraviewDemo.iOS  
{  
    class SaveService: ISaveService  
    {  
        void ISaveService.SaveFile(string fileName, byte[] data)  
        {  
            var documents = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);  
            var filename = Path.Combine(documents, fileName);  
            File.WriteAllBytes(filename, data);  
        }  
    }  
}  

xaml.cs:

private void cameraView_MediaCaptured(object sender, Xamarin.CommunityToolkit.UI.Views.MediaCapturedEventArgs e)  
{  
    byte[] image = e.ImageData;  
    DependencyService.Get<ISaveService>().wirteFile("test.jpg", image);  
}  

Here are some related links you can refer to.

How to write a file to a Internal Storage in xamarin forms which can be found by the user
File system access in Xamarin.iOS

As to set the resolution, you can try to convert the e.ImageData to Bitmap and try method Bitmap.SetResolution(Single, Single) Method and Bitmap.CreateBitmap Method.

Regards,
Kyle

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