title: Android Camera Preview Frame Timestamp
body: <p>Is there a way to get a timestamp of when the Android Camera Preview Frame was captured?</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>no Camera method is returning a timestamp</li>
  <li>you can not access Camera from native code</li>
  <li>buffer size is not static (depends on the min preview size acquired from the camera - when and if the method is working) and if there are more frames in the queue then there are preview buffers they are discarded</li>
  <li>frame rate that was set (again, if/when the method is working) is just a hint to the system, camera can ignore the value. Same goes for the frame rate the camera is returning.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I am doing some heavy image processing in real time, and the small errors when added together are a real problem.</p>