Camera restarts app on android

mobile
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When using the camera on android my cordova app is killed and restarted after the camera is closed. This happens because of the android lifecycle described here:

https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/platforms/android/#lifecycle-guide

I don’t like the solution described in the document because I think using the camera should be an inapp action and not close and restart the app.
I also tried the following plugin: https://github.com/zebra1024/cordova-plugin-wezka-nativecamera but it doesn’t work for me at all.

Does someone knows a working solution for the problem?

BTW.: If you use the camera plugin in your app you should activate Don't keep activities in the Developer options -> Advanced and try the camera. If it doesn’t work your app may won’t work on some android devices. We saw it on hawei devices most of the time.

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I never had this problem, maybe because my devices had enough resources to keep the app in the background. But if these app kills actually happen, I don’t see another solution than the one described in the Cordova docs, since this is the clean way to deal with it.

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I don’t think the described way is a good one.

I’m currently working on the native camera plugin and got it working: https://github.com/mscherer82/cordova-plugin-wezka-nativecamera by adding a permissions request.

But there are a lot of open points like merging a gallery plugin (like this one https://github.com/econejer/ForegroundCameraGallery)

If someone is interessted in supporting this please let me know.