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Nativescript Camera plugin makes the app to be killed by Android system on takePicture function

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Description

When I open the camera in certain devices like Mogo G5 the very moment the app calls takePicture function makes the app to crash or to be killed by android system with the following logcat error:

2021-12-24 09:42:21.699 1832-4115/? I/ActivityManager: START u0 {act=android.media.action.IMAGE_CAPTURE flg=0x3 cmp=com.motorola.cameraone/com.motorola.camera.Camera clip={text/uri-list U:content://com.example.app.provider/external_files/Android/data/com.example.app/files/NSIMG_20211224_94221.jpg} (has extras)} from uid 10157
2021-12-24 09:42:21.710 11535-11535/com.example.app I/JS: loading change false true
2021-12-24 09:42:21.752 810-810/? D/SFPerfTracer:        layers: (2:8) (animation background stackId=1#0 (0xb0ed6000): 0:16514)* (DimLayerController/Stack=0#0 (0xb0ee3000): 0:69830)* (Sprite#0 (0xb0f7d000): 0:55)* (StatusBar#0 (0xb0ee6000): 4:1221672) (com.android.systemui.ImageWallpaper#0 (0xb0ee9000): 0:64133)* (animation background stackId=0#0 (0xb0992000): 0:2)* (SnapshotStartingWindow for taskId=13852#0 (0xb0936000): 0:21)- (com.example.app/com.tns.NativeScriptActivity#0 (0xb050a000): 229:247) 
2021-12-24 09:42:21.758 11535-11535/com.example.app D/FirebasePlugin: onActivityPaused: Application has been stopped.
2021-12-24 09:42:21.876 11535-11898/com.example.app D/OpenGLRenderer: endAllActiveAnimators on 0x8b452080 (RippleDrawable) with handle 0x8b543cc0
2021-12-24 09:42:24.310 1832-5590/? I/ActivityManager: Process com.example.app (pid 11535) has died: prev LAST
2021-12-24 09:42:24.311 1832-7137/? I/WindowManager: WIN DEATH: Window{34be533 u0 com.example.app/com.tns.NativeScriptActivity}
2021-12-24 09:42:25.011 810-810/? D/SFPerfTracer:        layers: (1:9) (animation background stackId=1#0 (0xb0ed6000): 0:16516)* (DimLayerController/Stack=0#0 (0xb0ee3000): 0:69830)* (Sprite#0 (0xb0f7d000): 0:55)* (StatusBar#0 (0xb0ee6000): 66:1221764)* (com.android.systemui.ImageWallpaper#0 (0xb0ee9000): 0:64133)* (animation background stackId=0#0 (0xb0992000): 0:2)* (com.example.app/com.tns.NativeScriptActivity#0 (0xb050a000): 0:268)- (Splash Screen com.motorola.cameraone#0 (0xb0936000): 0:30)- (com.motorola.cameraone/com.motorola.camera.Camera#0 (0xb050f000): 2:10)* 

Using:
NativeScript CLI: 8.1.5
NativeScript Android: 8.1.1
NativeScript Core: 8.1.5
Camera Plugin: 5.0.10

The plugin is unusable at this point so I'll try @nstudio/nativescript-camera-plus to see if the same happens

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Research direction

Start by reproducing takePicture on the reported Moto G5 using NativeScript CLI 8.1.5, NativeScript Android 8.1.1, NativeScript Core 8.1.5, and Camera Plugin 5.0.10, then inspect the Android logcat output. Done means identifying and resolving the condition that causes the app process to die when the camera activity opens.

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Assessment

Tech stack
android, typescript
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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