Ruben Vanhoeyveld created CB-1513:
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Summary: Cordova app gets killed by garbage collector when out of
memory due to camera
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
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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