Android Question ACL Picturetaken not firing on Galaxy Note 3

[MotoMusher]

I have an app with a camera in use by a few hundred people. 0 issues until this week when one of my long time users upgraded to a Galaxy Note 3.

I use ACL and call cam1.takepicture. I have a logging line before and after and the call is made and it fires correctly

Sub Cam1_PictureTaken (Data() As Byte) is never fired. Line one of this sub should write a line in the log and it does not.

Is there something unique about the Note 3 that anyone has seen? Only this device has that problem.

 

[Erel]

If you can try to run the CameraEx example on this device and see whether it works or not.

 

[MotoMusher]

If you can try to run the CameraEx example on this device and see whether it works or not.

It does work. I had a number of problems with it before though so I did not implement it. I will have to take another look. Same issue with ACL also reported in 4.4. Note is 4.3.

 

[MotoMusher]

Figured it out for those who stumble upon this. ACL and CameraEX both exhibited the same behavior, and were both resolved in the same manner.

Prior to cam.takepicture, I had always called panelpreview.removeview. Though perhaps misguided, it did seem to free up resources while the image was manipulated and it worked for every user I had, and removed some issues (it seemed) I had with users with real poor hardware.

Moving the panelpreview.removeview to after cam.release (post picture) solved the problem for 4.3 and 4.4 users.