[CB-12335] captureVideo() crashes the app when running to an android 6.0 or 7.0 emulator

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Component/s: cordova-plugin-media-capture
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Zia Sergio
• Created: 09/Jan/17 10:50
• Updated: 23/Mar/19 22:18
• Resolved: 23/Mar/19 22:18

Description

cordova 6.4
cordova android platform 6.0
cordova-media-capture plugin 1.4.1

built : android sdk version 24

When using Android 6.0 emulator :

target Android 6.0 - API Level 23
cpu Intel Atom (x86_64)
front and back camera emulated
memory RAM 1024
VM heap 64
internal storage 16 GiB
SD card 4 GiB

The emulated camera starts recording a video, stops correctly, but crashes the app when validate the captured video.

adb logcat trace

01-09 11:04:55.485  1913  2552 E DatabaseUtils: Writing exception to parcel
01-09 11:04:55.485  1913  2552 E DatabaseUtils: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: reading com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider uri content://media/external/video/media/40 from pid=3130, uid=10056 requires android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, or grantUriPermission()
01-09 11:04:55.485  1913  2552 E DatabaseUtils:         at android.content.ContentProvider.enforceReadPermissionInner(ContentProvider.java:605)
01-09 11:04:55.485  1913  2552 E DatabaseUtils:         at android.content.ContentProvider$Transport.enforceReadPermission(ContentProvider.java:480)
01-09 11:04:55.485  1913  2552 E DatabaseUtils:         at android.content.ContentProvider$Transport.query(ContentProvider.java:211)
01-09 11:04:55.485  1913  2552 E DatabaseUtils:         at android.content.ContentProviderNative.onTransact(ContentProviderNative.java:112)
01-09 11:04:55.485  1913  2552 E DatabaseUtils:         at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:453)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: pool-1-thread-1
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.saipm.dh, PID: 3130
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: reading com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider uri content://media/external/video/media/40 from pid=3130, uid=10056 requires android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, or grantUriPermission()
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1599)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:183)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:135)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.content.ContentProviderProxy.query(ContentProviderNative.java:421)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.content.ContentResolver.query(ContentResolver.java:491)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.content.ContentResolver.query(ContentResolver.java:434)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at org.apache.cordova.CordovaResourceApi.mapUriToFile(CordovaResourceApi.java:154)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at org.apache.cordova.mediacapture.Capture.createMediaFile(Capture.java:433)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at org.apache.cordova.mediacapture.Capture.onVideoActivityResult(Capture.java:413)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at org.apache.cordova.mediacapture.Capture$1.run(Capture.java:332)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1113)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:588)
01-09 11:04:55.487  3130  3189 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)
01-09 11:04:55.488  1630  2026 W ActivityManager:   Force finishing activity com.saipm.dh/.MainActivity

When using Android 7.0 emulator :

target Android 7.0 - API Level 24
cpu Intel Atom (x86_64)
front and back camera emulated
memory RAM 1024
VM heap 64
internal storage 16 GiB
SD card 8 GiB

When captureVideo() is invoked, the emulated camera does not start and the app crashes immediately.

adb logcat trace

01-09 10:40:23.266  1252  1252 V EmulatedCamera_Camera: getCameraInfo
01-09 10:40:23.266  1252  1252 V EmulatedCamera_BaseCamera: getCameraInfo
01-09 10:40:23.291 28517 28534 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-2
01-09 10:40:23.291 28517 28534 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.android.camera, PID: 28517
01-09 10:40:23.291 28517 28534 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to read from field 'int android.hardware.Camera$Size.width' on a null object reference
01-09 10:40:23.291 28517 28534 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.android.camera.VideoCamera.getDesiredPreviewSize(VideoCamera.java:799)
01-09 10:40:23.291 28517 28534 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.android.camera.VideoCamera.readVideoPreferences(VideoCamera.java:781)
01-09 10:40:23.291 28517 28534 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.android.camera.VideoCamera.-wrap3(VideoCamera.java)
01-09 10:40:23.291 28517 28534 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.android.camera.VideoCamera$1.run(VideoCamera.java:389)
01-09 10:40:23.291 28517 28534 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:761)
01-09 10:40:23.293  1503  1514 W ActivityManager:   Force finishing activity com.android.camera/.VideoCamera
01-09 10:40:23.295  1503  1514 W ActivityManager:   Force finishing activity com.saipm.dh/.MainActivity
01-09 10:40:23.322 28517 28528 I art     : Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 8683(640KB) AllocSpace objects, 4(80KB) LOS objects, 0% free