android force camera to take photo in landscape mode

Question

I want to force the default android camera to take photo in landscape mode only. I have tried following:

         Intent cameraIntent=new Intent("android.media.action.IMAGE_CAPTURE");
         File photo = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath(), "Pic.jpg");
         cameraIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, Uri.fromFile(photo));
         cameraIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_SCREEN_ORIENTATION, ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);
         startActivity(cameraIntent);

but this works only in 2.1 not for later. I just want to have photo image to be saved in landscape mode. I don't want to use any image processing such as matrix or custom camera.

Note: I am calling this intent from the activity which has the orientation fixed as "portrait"

Answer 1

In androidmanifest.xml

<activity android:name="activity_name" android:screenOrientation="landscape" />

This activity will be your image capturing activity.