I wish we could blame the carriers on this one but we can't. It is a architecture issue with the Android OS itself. A lot of these ideas made more sense when phones didn't have 8MP or 12MP cameras.
Simon Mac Donald http://hi.im/simonmacdonald On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > argh +1 > > should be a f/oss license that lets anyone modify code 'cept carriers > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: >> We should probably add this to the Road Map, since it'll be a >> substantial change. >> >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Lorin Beer <lo...@adobe.com> wrote: >>> We own the camera on other platforms, and the functionality it offers is >>> pretty core to cordova usage. With the issues being reported, I think it >>> makes sense to bring it back in. >>> >>> - Lorin Beer >>> On 2012-09-20, at 11:52 AM, Simon MacDonald <simon.macdon...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Yeah, I think it is time. I just responded to the guy who opened the >>>> ticket on JIRA saying roughly the same thing. Also, I've been dealing >>>> with some internal guys for the past 24 hours on camera problems so I >>>> really think it would be less of a pain in the ass to bring the camera >>>> internal to Cordova. >>>> >>>> I'm willing to take a first pass at it starting tomorrow. >>>> >>>> Simon Mac Donald >>>> http://hi.im/simonmacdonald >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Hey >>>>> >>>>> 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? >>>>> >>>>> Joe >>>