''' Camera Example ============== This example demonstrates a simple use of the camera. It shows a window with a buttoned labelled 'play' to turn the camera on and off. Note that not finding a camera, perhaps because gstreamer is not installed, will throw an exception during the kv language processing. ''' # Uncomment these lines to see all the messages # from kivy.logger import Logger # import logging # Logger.setLevel(logging.TRACE) from kivy.app import App from kivy.lang import Builder from kivy.clock import Clock from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout import time Builder.load_string(''' : orientation: 'vertical' Camera: id: camera resolution: (640, 480) play: False ToggleButton: text: 'Play' on_press: camera.play = not camera.play size_hint_y: None height: '48dp' Button: text: 'Capture' size_hint_y: None height: '48dp' on_press: root.capture() ''') class CameraClick(BoxLayout): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(BoxLayout, self).__init__() camera = self.ids['camera'] camera.play = True Clock.schedule_interval(self.capture, 2) def capture(self, *args): ''' Function to capture the images and give them the names according to their captured time and date. ''' camera = self.ids['camera'] timestr = time.strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S") camera.export_to_png("/sdcard/poc/IMG_{}.png".format(timestr)) print("Captured") class TestCamera(App): def build(self): return CameraClick() def run(): TestCamera().run()