How to set Android camera orientation properly?

This solution will work forallversions of Android. You can use reflection in Java to make it work for all Android devices:

Basically you should create a reflection wrapper to call the Android 2.2 setDisplayOrientation, instead of calling the specific method.

The method:

  protected void setDisplayOrientation(Camera camera, int angle){
  Method downPolymorphic;
  try
  {
    downPolymorphic = camera.getClass().getMethod("setDisplayOrientation", new Class[] { int.class });
    if (downPolymorphic != null)
      downPolymorphic.invoke(camera, new Object[] { angle });
  }
  catch (Exception e1)
  {
  }
}

And instead of usingcamera.setDisplayOrientation(x)usesetDisplayOrientation(camera, x):

  if (Integer.parseInt(Build.VERSION.SDK) >= 8)
    setDisplayOrientation(mCamera, 90);
  else
  {
    if (getResources().getConfiguration().orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT)
    {
      p.set("orientation", "portrait");
      p.set("rotation", 90);
    }
    if (getResources().getConfiguration().orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE)
    {
      p.set("orientation", "landscape");
      p.set("rotation", 90);
    }
  }