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Joe Bowser resolved CB-1513.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
Assignee: Joe Bowser (was: Simon MacDonald)
OK, once again I get to be the heavy.
We have been working on bringing in the Camera plugin, however we recently
decided to not have this be a core plugin in Cordova and instead have it as a
3rd party plugin. I'll be creating a repository for it soon and putting it on
this ticket, but we have no plans to explicitly fix this problem in the near
future in Cordova itself.
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cordova-dev/201211.mbox/%3CCAOBL_k66_V_P23V3wBE-G=quxd7mq_jdgr-svaysbbid8mu...@mail.gmail.com%3E
If you feel ambitious, you can try the code in this fork and build it yourself:
https://github.com/infil00p/cordova-android/tree/camera
Sorry about this.
> Cordova app gets killed by garbage collector when out of memory due to camera
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>
> Key: CB-1513
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1513
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Android
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Environment: All android versions with some memory extensive apps
> running
> Reporter: Ruben Vanhoeyveld
> Assignee: Joe Bowser
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: Cordova, EmbeddedCameraApp, app, camera, crash, custom,
> restart
> Original Estimate: 168h
> Remaining Estimate: 168h
>
> I'm using PhoneGap's navigator.camera.getPicture function to retrieve a photo
> from the device's camera on Android.
> When I click the button, it does start the camera, but when I click OK on the
> camera app after taking a photo, it restarts the application.
> I tried to:
> * use different source types.
> * use different destination types.
> * reduce quality.
> Any ideas?
> I know this:
> {quote}This problem isn't actually about Phonegap. It's a common issue on
> native android apps too.
> It occurs because when the camera is triggered, the android activity goes
> background (onStop state), waiting for the camera to take the picture. Then
> the GC comes and kills the activity to free memory before the conclusion of
> camera action, and when the camera is done your activity has already died.
> That is why the app is restarted.{quote}
> From:
> [Stackoverflow|http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8368091/phonegap-camera-restarts-the-application]
> I have also tried this:
> {quote}We submited a Google Code project named Foreground Camera Plugin that
> fixes the problem of Android Camera restarting Phonegap applications. There
> is some orientation on how to use it too. Please see:
> http://code.google.com/p/foreground-camera-plugin/{quote}
> From:
> [Stackoverflow|http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8368091/phonegap-camera-restarts-the-application]
> But that didn't work for me... The same goes for *EmbeddedCameraApp*. They
> are all built on older versions of Cordova. I use Cordova *version 2.0.0*
> Conclusion: It seems to me that the only solution is to use a custom made
> camera that's implemented in the app as a new activity. Like that, the app
> doesn't go to the background and isn't killed by the garbage collector.
> Can this be made?
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