App Crash on Android

[vanhoutk]

Expected behaviour

I've been using this package for the last three months in my app and it's been working perfectly. Opening a view with a <camera> component in it accesses the camera, recording works fine and I'm able to do what I want with the recording afterwards.

Actual behaviour

In the last few days this behaviour has changed and I can't figure out why. When I first launch my app after clearing all data, I can navigate into my view containing a <camera> component. When I start to try record, I get a standard android message that the app has crashed. There's no JS logging or Logcat logging appearing for this that I can see.

When I open my app again, I'm unable to navigate into the view containing the <camera> component. The render method of the view gets called, but nothing changes on screen unless I remove the <camera> component. When I try to navigate to the view the app just hangs at that point until I get a standard android message saying it's not responding and asking if I'd like to close it. Again, no logs that I can see.

If anyone has any thoughts it'd be much appreciated.

Environment

• React Native version: 0.47.2
• React Native platform + platform version: Android 6.0.1

react-native-camera

Version: 0.12.0

[aleixsanfe]

I have the same problem and I'm on my way to try to find a temporal solution.

The problem is caused because android, on the newer versions (+5.0 (API lvl 21) ) has changed all classes about camera as it is explained here: Android Camera API

[vanhoutk]

After testing on a couple of emulators, it seems to be any API before 25 that it isn't working with.

[vanhoutk]

Managed to solve this by uninstalling the app, reinstalling, and manually setting the permissions as described at the end of #696

Strange that it was working fine originally but isn't now.