Hi all,

Can someone tell me if this is an issue that Cordova can address?  It
appears that there is a common failure that happens when Cordova apps are
put in the background to use the Camera or Media Capture plugins... the
Android activity service appears to look for memory to free up and kills
the Cordova activity, so that when the user completes the capture task the
app RESTARTS.  See SO thread here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8368091/phonegap-camera-restarts-the-application/9524643#

This is a total UX fail and would very likely prevent me from releasing my
Cordova app.  People don't take kindly to their photos getting lost.  I am
using Cordova 3.3 and a somewhat older version of the Capture plugin as an
upgrade a month ago caused breaking changes and I rolled back.  Anyway, it
appears that at some point someone created a custom plugin called
foreground camera that never allowed the app to go into onStop state, which
fixed the problem:

https://code.google.com/p/foreground-camera-plugin/

Unfortunately, this custom plugin is horribly out of date (Cordova 2.4).
 Is it possible for the native Cordova plugins to be modified to prevent
this terrible restart behavior?  Are there any plans to doing so?  Or is it
only possible by creating a completely new camera plug-in, from scratch,
one that doesn't use the native camera application?

Thanks for your time.

Marc

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