How to launch front camera with intent?

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Word of caution: its a hack

Add this to the intent

intent.putExtra("android.intent.extras.CAMERA_FACING", 1);

This solution isn’t sustainable, its using a testing code of the Camera app. For more info look at the “getCameraFacingIntentExtras” static method in Util class of the AOSP Camera project.

Update:
Looks like that it was disabled in L

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