CAMERA / ANDROID: external services no longer available

[karliwalti]

camera-start
camera-start-video 
videoplayer 

are no longer working on API 24.

consequently the buttons in DemoCamera for Android are not doing anything.

[karliwalti]

Also not working when building for API 22 and 29.
Is this linked to #256 ?

[mgorges]

Consider changing loaders/android/AndroidManifest.xml.in#L8 to 21 or remove it's definition completely (which makes it equal to @SYS_ANDROIDAPI@ as per https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#target); it was introduced in 66d130d as a requirement to go to the Play Store. All of these things are something that Google broke, we can only try to recover out technical debt in this respect or give up.

[ddunsmuir]

@karliwalti what about older Android? Did you try the suggestion above to edit the AndroidManifest.xml.in? If everything runs fine on 21 or older, then this is likely something Android specific. Something Google changed, not specific to LambdaNative.

[karliwalti]

Yes, working with API21 resolves the camera issue (but not #372).

[karliwalti]

Update: on Android 11 systems, the 'trick' to set API21 no longer works with expected behaviors. Returning from the camera restarts the ln app instead of adding to the process. No crash, but also no picture...
Systems with Android 10 work and are definitely the limit

[mgorges]

4582b2e allows changes to the launchMode - @peterlew overrides it in one of our apps, maybe this is related.

[mgorges]

Should be resolved by merging #380 ?

[karliwalti]

As far as I could test, this is indeed resolved. Thank you @peterlew !