Phonegap|Android 4 - App sometimes crashes when taking picture from PHOTOLIBRARY

Question

I use the following code to get in Phonegap (cordova 1.9.0) a photo from a gallery or from camera and include it in the page:

function getPhotoByGallery() {
    navigator.camera.getPicture(onPhotoSuccess, onFail, {
        quality : 50,
        destinationType: navigator.camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI,
        sourceType: navigator.camera.PictureSourceType.PHOTOLIBRARY
    });
}

function getPhotoByCamera() {
    navigator.camera.getPicture(onPhotoSuccess, onFail, {
        quality : 50
    });
}

function onPhotoSuccess(data) {
    var viewport = document.getElementById('viewport');
    //console.log(data);
    viewport.style.display = "";
    document.getElementById("test_img").src = data;
}

Test-Device: Samsung Galaxy S3 with Android 4. Getting the Photos with the camera is no problem. But when I try to take a photo from the gallery several times, the app crashes frequently (without any usefull error) Not all the time but often and in different cycles. (Sometimes when picking an image from the gallery the third time, sometimes the fifth time and so on)

I have no idea what the cause of the problem could be since the app doesn't give me any feedback of the problem it encountered...

What version of Phonegap are you using? I've fixed a lot of Camera issues for the upcomming 2.0.0. Also, run "adb logcat" to see what the error is from the OS. — Simon MacDonald, Jul 13 '12 at 17:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 19 '12 at 10:12

I was having the same problem for 2 days until I fount that you should have access to the permission of getting the image file you took in the device. By default there is no permission of return the image so it returns null and your app crashes.

If you are using Cordova/PhoneGap in XCode then you should also create the Config.xml file in www folder and give permission to acces the image file.

<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/device" />
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/battery"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/camera"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/contacts"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/file"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/geolocation"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/media"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/network"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/notification"/>

If you are working on Android then give permission on the AndroidManifest.xml file.

you can find everything for the config.xml file here: https://build.phonegap.com/docs/config-xml

There is no issue in the Cordova/PhoneGap.

Ian Devlin · Answer 2 · 2012-10-24T14:00:30.140

I'm suddenly having the same issue with an app running on Android 4 (Samsung Galaxy III) and PhoneGap 2.0 (built via PhoneGap Build).

As a side point, the only permissions that are needed are:

<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/camera"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/file"/>

which I have set (it works on an Android 2.2 phone).

UPDATE After further testing it turns out that the problem is a well known one where Android closes open apps when it needs more memory, e.g. when it opens the webcam.

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 13 '12 at 12:25

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Is the device rooted? if so you can use a logcat program (such as alogcat) to try and help.

answered Jul 13 '12 at 12:25

user319940

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You don't need a rooted device to use logcat which is part of the Android SDK. – codemonkey Jul 13 '12 at 13:33
Ah, I've only ever used it on device, which I think you need to be rooted for. – user319940 Jul 13 '12 at 14:21
Ah! I totaly forgot, that you need to click the device in the "Devices"-tab first, to see any logcat-output... Thanks for the answers. – Christian Eßl Jul 16 '12 at 06:17

Phonegap|Android 4 - App sometimes crashes when taking picture from PHOTOLIBRARY

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