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Posted to dev@cordova.apache.org by Maxime LUCE <ma...@touchify.co> on 2014/07/10 11:11:57 UTC
Android CameraPlugin - App gets killed.
Hi everybody,
I know that there is a common bug in Android (announced in Quirks) which makes the system kill the app while using the plugin camera.
During some time I thought that it was the only way to launch camera activity.
But I just found the plugin Foreground Camera : https://code.google.com/p/foreground-camera-plugin/
This plugin fixes this issue by rendering the camera activity inside the cordova one (like in the iOS version).
Can we do that in our official camera plugin ?
Cordialement.
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Maxime LUCE
Touchify, CEO
+33 6 28 60 72 34 | skype: maximeluce
maxime@touchify.co<ma...@touchify.co> | http://touchify.co
RE: Android CameraPlugin - App gets killed.
Posted by Maxime LUCE <ma...@touchify.co>.
Hi,
Yes it's a little out of date but it doesn't launch a separate activity and instead a linked activity into the cordova one so it should not be killed.
The problem is not only with low memory phones since if you have a lot of apps launched, the result could be the same.
Preserving the state is a really hard to solve problem since we must save the browser state into memory but we don't have access to the low level api for that.
I'm not sure it makes apps look more like cordova apps.
I think we should more quickly search for a workaround for this issue because it's a really big problem for in production apps. We can't rely on this plugin in production.
Cordialement.
Maxime LUCE
Touchify, CEO
+33 6 28 60 72 34 | skype: maximeluce
maxime@touchify.co | http://touchify.co
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Joe Bowser [mailto:bowserj@gmail.com]
Envoyé : jeudi 10 juillet 2014 15:16
À : dev
Objet : Re: Android CameraPlugin - App gets killed.
No. We can't just adopt this or own the camera because of these reasons:
1. Looks out of date
2. Has UI elements that we'd have to maintain 3. Does not actually solve the problem (Activities in the background can still die) 4. Makes apps more obviously look like Cordova apps.
We should instead fix the general problem of preserving state when starting and stopping an app, which is a harder problem, but a more fundamental one.
Also, this is an edge case with extremely low end phones and/or extremely high end cameras, so the third party plugin approach may make sense.
Sorry for the short response, my only connection to the internet at the moment is a Verizon prepaid phone.
On Jul 10, 2014 5:19 AM, "Maxime LUCE" <ma...@touchify.co> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
>
>
> I know that there is a common bug in Android (announced in Quirks)
> which makes the system kill the app while using the plugin camera.
>
>
>
> During some time I thought that it was the only way to launch camera
> activity.
>
> But I just found the plugin Foreground Camera :
> https://code.google.com/p/foreground-camera-plugin/
>
> This plugin fixes this issue by rendering the camera activity inside
> the cordova one (like in the iOS version).
>
>
>
> Can we do that in our official camera plugin ?
>
>
>
> Cordialement.
>
>
>
> [image: logo]
>
> Maxime LUCE
>
> Touchify, CEO
>
>
>
> +33 6 28 60 72 34 | skype: maximeluce
>
> maxime@touchify.co | http://touchify.co
>
>
>
>
>
Re: Android CameraPlugin - App gets killed.
Posted by Joe Bowser <bo...@gmail.com>.
No. We can't just adopt this or own the camera because of these reasons:
1. Looks out of date
2. Has UI elements that we'd have to maintain
3. Does not actually solve the problem (Activities in the background can
still die)
4. Makes apps more obviously look like Cordova apps.
We should instead fix the general problem of preserving state when starting
and stopping an app, which is a harder problem, but a more fundamental one.
Also, this is an edge case with extremely low end phones and/or extremely
high end cameras, so the third party plugin approach may make sense.
Sorry for the short response, my only connection to the internet at the
moment is a Verizon prepaid phone.
On Jul 10, 2014 5:19 AM, "Maxime LUCE" <ma...@touchify.co> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
>
>
> I know that there is a common bug in Android (announced in Quirks) which
> makes the system kill the app while using the plugin camera.
>
>
>
> During some time I thought that it was the only way to launch camera
> activity.
>
> But I just found the plugin Foreground Camera :
> https://code.google.com/p/foreground-camera-plugin/
>
> This plugin fixes this issue by rendering the camera activity inside the
> cordova one (like in the iOS version).
>
>
>
> Can we do that in our official camera plugin ?
>
>
>
> Cordialement.
>
>
>
> [image: logo]
>
> Maxime LUCE
>
> Touchify, CEO
>
>
>
> +33 6 28 60 72 34 | skype: maximeluce
>
> maxime@touchify.co | http://touchify.co
>
>
>
>
>