On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We're getting a lot of people complaining about the camera crashing > and the lifecycle issues. Now, I've tried using the built in > WebView.restoreState methods, and all I have gotten is a crashing > application, so I'm thinking that it might be time that we owned the > camera again. I'm willing to do the work on this one, but I want to > know if people think this is a good idea, or whether we should just > shunt this to plugin developers again and hope they don't abandon it. > > Any thoughts? > Our 'Wiki Loves Monuments' photo-upload app has run into a lot of OOM crashes on Android when using the camera, and these are terribly hard to debug -- we can't even reproduce them reliably on our own devices, and it's unclear what we can do about them. (We're using FILE_URI not DATA_URI, and in most cases shouldn't be triggering much processing of the images, but we get crashes in the bitmap read in the camera return handler code sometimes.) If there's a solid solution in using an in-app camera screen, I would strongly welcome it. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / bvibber @ wikimedia.org)
