Well, all those solutions are good but i prefer setting the volume to 0 (and not only system since some devices users other streams then system and/or not all streams include system) before:
smth like this would work flawlessly:
Camera mCamera = null;
function takePicture() {
storeSoundSettings();
setMuteAll(true);
// init camera and such.
Camera.CameraInfo info = new Camera.CameraInfo();
Camera.getCameraInfo(IdOfCameraBackOrFront, info);
if (info.canDisableShutterSound) {
camera.enableShutterSound(false);
}
setMuteAll(false);
recoverSoundSettings();
}
and store, recover and setMuteAll something like this:
int[] streams = new int[]{
AudioManager.STREAM_ALARM,
AudioManager.STREAM_DTMF,
AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC,
AudioManager.STREAM_NOTIFICATION,
AudioManager.STREAM_RING,
AudioManager.STREAM_SYSTEM,
AudioManager.STREAM_VOICE_CALL};
JSONObject json;
AudioManager manager = (AudioManager) getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
public void storeSoundSettings() {
json = new JSONObject();
json.put("mode", manager.getMode());
json.put("ringermode", manager.getRingerMode());
for (int stream : streams) {
json.put("stream_" + stream, manager.getStreamVolume(stream));
}
}
public void recoverSoundSettings() {
json = new JSONObject(readString("last_audio_setting", null));
manager.setMode(json.getInt("mode"));
manager.setRingerMode(json.getInt("ringermode"));
for (int stream : streams) {
manager.setStreamVolume(stream, json.getInt("stream_" + stream), AudioManager.FLAG_ALLOW_RINGER_MODES);
}
public void setMuteAll(boolean mute) {
for (int stream : streams) {
manager.setStreamMute(stream, mute);
if (mute) {
manager.setStreamVolume(stream, 100, AudioManager.FLAG_ALLOW_RINGER_MODES);
} else {
manager.setStreamVolume(stream, 0, AudioManager.FLAG_REMOVE_SOUND_AND_VIBRATE);
}
}
}
Do not forget to catch the exceptions. I removed them for better highlighting.