phonegap android app crashing due to low memory on opening camera

Question

I am developing an android phonegap app using phonegap v1.3.0
My app has a button which when clicks launches the camera using the phonegap api, when returns the photo path

Answer 1

Try to reduce image size with targetWidth and targetHeight. Use DestinationType FILE_URI.

Answer 2

Reducing the quality parameter from 50 to 30 stopped the camera API from crashing the app on my HTC Evo.