Cannot take pictures on Android

[Owlbertz]

Hi,

I am using the camera plugin to take pictures and to select photos from the gallery. While the latter works perfectly fine, the former action fails with this error:

length=1; index=1

I was able to find out the source, but not the cause:

"F09 Camera1798421768 sjava.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: length=1; index=1
	 at org.apache.cordova.camera.CordovaUri.getFileNameFromUri(CordovaUri.java:98)
	 at org.apache.cordova.camera.CordovaUri.<init>(CordovaUri.java:52)
	 at org.apache.cordova.camera.CameraLauncher.takePicture(CameraLauncher.java:330)
	 at org.apache.cordova.camera.CameraLauncher.callTakePicture(CameraLauncher.java:308)
	 at org.apache.cordova.camera.CameraLauncher.execute(CameraLauncher.java:184)
	 at org.apache.cordova.CordovaPlugin.execute(CordovaPlugin.java:98)
	 at org.apache.cordova.PluginManager.exec(PluginManager.java:132)
	 at org.apache.cordova.CordovaBridge.jsExec(CordovaBridge.java:59)
	 at org.apache.cordova.engine.SystemExposedJsApi.exec(SystemExposedJsApi.java:41)
	 at android.os.MessageQueue.nativePollOnce(Native Method)
	 at android.os.MessageQueue.next(MessageQueue.java:323)
	 at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
	 at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)

Arguments provided were to the Java-file were:
0: 70
1: 1
2: 1
3: 1024
4: -1
5: 0
6: 0
7: false
8: true
9: false
10: null
11: 0

I hope someone has an idea what I am doing wrong.

[hazems]

How do you launch camera, can you share your code? What is your Android device/OS version information?

[pvillaverde]

Hey there!

I'm having the same issue using Ionic. It works when using library but if I try to use the camera it gives the same error.
Here's the code I used:

function takePicture(camera) {
	const options = {
		//	quality: 90, //Number	Quality of the saved image, range of 0 - 100
		destinationType: $cordovaCamera.DestinationType.FILE_URI, //Number	Format of the return value
		sourceType: camera ? $cordovaCamera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA : $cordovaCamera.PictureSourceType.PHOTOLIBRARY, //Number	Set the source of the picture
		allowEdit: false, //Boolean	Allow simple editing of image before selection
		encodingType: $cordovaCamera.EncodingType.JPEG, //Number	JPEG = 0, PNG = 1
		//	targetWidth: 300, //Number	Width to scale image (pixels). Used with targetHeight
		//	targetHeight: 300, //Number	Height to scale image (pixels). Used with targetHeight
		mediaType: $cordovaCamera.MediaType.PICTURE, //String	Set the type of media to select from
		cameraDirection: 0, //Number	Back = 0, Front-facing = 1
		//	popoverOptions: "",	//String	iOS-only options that specify popover location in iPad
		saveToPhotoAlbum: true, //Boolean	Save image to photo album on the device
		correctOrientation: true, //Boolean	correct camera captured images in case wrong orientation
	};
	$cordovaCamera.getPicture(options).then(console.log).catch(console.error);
}

Using Ionic v1 and Cordova:

• Ionic Framework : ionic1 1.3.4
• cordova (Cordova CLI) : 8.1.2 (cordova-lib@8.1.1)
• Cordova Platforms : android 7.1.4
• cordova-plugin-camera 4.0.3 "Camera"
• Tested on device: Motorola G4Play with Android 7.1.1

Also as @Owlbertz , args passed to the Java-file:

0: 50
1: 1
2: 1
3: -1
4: -1
5: 0
6: 0
7: false
8: true
9: true
10: null
11: 0

[pvillaverde]

So far I've located the problem on CordovaUri.getFileNameFromUri
When doing

        String partial_path = fullUri.split("external_files")[1];

The array does not split in two because the fullUri I have is content://com.application.id.provider/external_cache/.Pic.jpgp having external_cache instead of external_files. So that's what's causing the IndexOutOfBounds Exception.

In my case I've found this is due to other plugin, "cordova-open", which I use to open downloaded files.
Cordova camara establish an "external-path" in camera_provider_paths.xml

<paths xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <external-path name="external_files" path="."/>
</paths>

while cordova-open establishes another in provider_paths.xml.

<paths xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <files-path name="files" path="."/>
    <cache-path name="cache" path="."/>
    <external-path name="external" path="."/>
    <external-files-path name="external_files" path="."/>
    <external-cache-path name="external_cache" path="."/>
</paths>

I'm not really into the android environment, but I guess some conflict exists there. And for me to work I had to remove external-files-path & external-cache-path and specify external-path name with "external_files", same as in cordova-camera. Just naming them the same way caused another error afterwards on which the file were not found.

If someone can point me into a better solution it would be appreciated. Maybe there should be something that checks the storage location, but I read something on the CordovaUri regarding there was no method to do it.

[hudawei996]

I solved this question use this method https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/pull/510/files/4f252dba55d27d08eb663ec51e2c86a983bc044a

[gonself]

hi!
i have the same issue with an ionic app...
@Huyongqiang after make this changes, what do you do? need to recompile or something? with ionic cordova android build still not works...

thanks!