Phonegap video capture crashes

Question

I\'ve made a relatively simple phonegap app, with the ability to capture images and videos and upload them to a server.

Images work fine, however when I call to capt

Answer 1

I think a better solution would be to actually prevent using the UI thread, instead of disabling the Thread Checking.

I solved it like this:

private JSONObject createMediaFile(final Uri data) {
    Future<JSONObject> result = cordova.getThreadPool().submit(new Callable<JSONObject>()
    {
        @Override
        public JSONObject call() throws Exception
        {
            File fp = webView.getResourceApi().mapUriToFile(data);
            JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();

            try {
                // File properties
                obj.put("name", fp.getName());
                obj.put("fullPath", fp.toURI().toString());
                // Because of an issue with MimeTypeMap.getMimeTypeFromExtension() all .3gpp files
                // are reported as video/3gpp. I'm doing this hacky check of the URI to see if it
                // is stored in the audio or video content store.
                if (fp.getAbsoluteFile().toString().endsWith(".3gp") || fp.getAbsoluteFile().toString().endsWith(".3gpp")) {
                    if (data.toString().contains("/audio/")) {
                        obj.put("type", AUDIO_3GPP);
                    } else {
                        obj.put("type", VIDEO_3GPP);
                    }
                } else {
                    obj.put("type", FileHelper.getMimeType(Uri.fromFile(fp), cordova));
                }

                obj.put("lastModifiedDate", fp.lastModified());
                obj.put("size", fp.length());
            } catch (JSONException e) {
                // this will never happen
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

            return obj;
        }
    });


    try
    {
        return result.get();
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    catch (ExecutionException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return null;

I wrapped the default method in a callable inner class. Now it gets executed in another thread.

Answer 2

A workaround for this issue is to edit [yourApp]\plugins\org.apache.cordova.media-capture\src\android\Capture.java

Starting at line 377, change this code

private JSONObject createMediaFile(Uri data) {
    File fp = webView.getResourceApi().mapUriToFile(data);
    JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();

to the following code

private JSONObject createMediaFile(Uri data) {
    // is thread checking enabled?
    boolean thC = webView.getResourceApi().isThreadCheckingEnabled();       
    // set thread checking to disabled (this works around mapUriToFile failing with IllegalStateException: Do not perform IO operations on the UI thread.
    webView.getResourceApi().setThreadCheckingEnabled(false);       
    File fp = webView.getResourceApi().mapUriToFile(data);
    // set thread checking back to whatever it was before the call above.
    webView.getResourceApi().setThreadCheckingEnabled(thC);
    JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();

This worked for us, hopefully it will be fixed properly soon.