Not sure. It's best to file an issue at: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB
... so it can be tracked and evaluated by the devs, and you can be notified. Sign up here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Signup!default.jspa Thanks! On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Marc Syp <marc....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone tell me if this is an issue that Cordova can address? It > appears that there is a common failure that happens when Cordova apps are > put in the background to use the Camera or Media Capture plugins... the > Android activity service appears to look for memory to free up and kills > the Cordova activity, so that when the user completes the capture task the > app RESTARTS. See SO thread here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8368091/phonegap-camera-restarts-the-application/9524643# > > This is a total UX fail and would very likely prevent me from releasing my > Cordova app. People don't take kindly to their photos getting lost. I am > using Cordova 3.3 and a somewhat older version of the Capture plugin as an > upgrade a month ago caused breaking changes and I rolled back. Anyway, it > appears that at some point someone created a custom plugin called > foreground camera that never allowed the app to go into onStop state, which > fixed the problem: > > https://code.google.com/p/foreground-camera-plugin/ > > Unfortunately, this custom plugin is horribly out of date (Cordova 2.4). > Is it possible for the native Cordova plugins to be modified to prevent > this terrible restart behavior? Are there any plans to doing so? Or is it > only possible by creating a completely new camera plug-in, from scratch, > one that doesn't use the native camera application? > > Thanks for your time. > > Marc
