Android Cameras - a blog

[RogerConnell]

This was great help Chester and I now have a much better understanding of the Camera thanks to playing with your code.

One note worth making
When I created my own application and tried to use your action code I found it crashed

How do I get the Media File "Provider" to load into the manifest on Android?

I have Chester’s Camera Application compiling and working. https://forums.adug.org.au/t/android-cameras-a-blog/59400 I now want to play with my own application. When I use Chester’s implementation of just the Action TakePhotoFromCameraAction on my own form in my own application or use a IFMXCameraService directly I get an Exception “java.lang.illegalArgumentException no meta data for provider with authority com.embarccardero.SampleCamera.fileprovider” Chester’s project manifest file cont…

Thanks to this list I discovered the problem was I needed to also add Entitlements>Secure Files to the application options. Chexter’s Zip code has this parameter set for android debug options and hence works but I spent a long time yesterday looking for the difference in options between Chester’s application and mine.