App is closed in background on using camera photo

mobile
1

Hello,
for some users, mostly IOS and some Android to, the data sent from camera photo are not received by the meteor app.
Context:
Existing meteor project using cordova-plugin-camera for 5 years.
Since last month many user start reporting that the can’t upload photo anymore, and the page is reloading after they take the photo.

From what I understand, when the camera photo is open, than app in background is closed by the device and reopen to the current url after camera is closed.
I could hardly reproduce the issue on my device, but the returned data from camera do not appear in the page, even if I try to store them in local-storage

I tried to replace DATA_URL by FILE_URI but the same behaviour is happening.

Does anyone reproduces this issue?

Thanks for your help

2

Do you user React?

Here is a sample of taking a photo. Is this how you do it?
What might happen if it worked but now it only works for some …

  • photos are too large
  • “new” phones process photos in HEIF and this might be incompatible with Cordova/Browser. I know HEIF are not supported by the browser and Cordova is technically a browser.
// .........
const [base64Image, setBase64Image] = useState(null)
const [cameraIsOpen, setCameraIsOpen] = useState(false)
// ......... 

const takeImage = () => {
    if (Meteor.isCordova) {
      CameraPreview?.takePicture({
        width: window.screen.width, height: window.screen.width, quality: 50
      }, imgData => {
        const img = 'data:image/jpeg;base64,' + imgData
        if (img) {
          setBase64Image(img)
        }
        CameraPreview?.stopCamera()
        setCameraIsOpen(false)
      })
    } else {
      console.log('take a photo')
    }
  }
3

Hello,
thanks for your answer. I think you speak about an another plugin? What I use is GitHub - apache/cordova-plugin-camera: Apache Cordova Plugin camera

4

Sorry, I assumed you were still asking about the same topic of your other post: [Solved] How to import cordova-plugin-camera-preview - #17 by sidae

5

No problem :grinning:
Indeed I tried, without success, to switch to camera-preview as a solution to this issue.