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Photo-taking task crashes app

Open jo-spek opened this issue 7 months ago • 5 comments

eMail from user:

"Picture taking form field in campaign A makes the app crash every time we try to take a picture, so we are just skipping it for the time being. It works in survey B though, which makes me think that it is the picture taking form field, in combination with some other data field(s), that the app is not tolerating."

I can confirm that collecting for another survey in my app (picture taking required & can't be skipped) does not work, instead a "Unsaved data restored" pop-up appears. Survey: https://ground.openforis.org/survey/N5hZgxQ8MnKDD8lhDwMs Build 0.1.17

Same does not work reproduced in a survey where the picture-taking can be skipped. Skipping and getting to the last page ("Data collected successfully") the app fully crashes.

jo-spek avatar Apr 09 '25 17:04 jo-spek

*note that this is not an issue in 0.1.20 (aka 0.1.14), but has been in 0.1.17+. Seems to be related to the issue where screenlock during polygon-drawing loses the polygon. I am quite sure that this problem didn't always occur in 0.1.17. Can it be some environmental variable in ground-platform that causes these issues?

jo-spek avatar Apr 28 '25 15:04 jo-spek

@anandwana001 was unable to repro on master branch, @rfontanarosa to help try to repro

kenstershiro avatar May 14 '25 14:05 kenstershiro

I showed @anandwana001 the problem. The build commit is 229f9baa8.

rfontanarosa avatar May 16 '25 08:05 rfontanarosa

This is likely a duplicate of https://github.com/google/ground-android/issues/3161.

gino-m avatar Jun 13 '25 13:06 gino-m

Suggestions:

  • try to understand from the docs if we are using the photo api in a std way (see error details from https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/master/graphics/java/android/graphics/RecordingCanvas.java )
  • understand the diffs in the app versions - from https://github.com/openforis/ground-android
  • isolate the problem with a simplified version of the app just taking and displaying the photo
  • Try switching to different lib for image strorage - Camerax - Storage method: File: https://developer.android.com/media/camera/camerax/take-photo?_gl=119904j0_upMQ.._gaMTQzNzAyMzczMS4xNzUxMDMzOTA2_ga_6HH9YJMN9M*czE3NTEwMzM5MDUkbzEkZzAkdDE3NTEwMzM5MDUkajYwJGwwJGgxMzg1NDQ0NTQ3#capture

@anandwana001 to try switch to Camerax and test with @jo-spek

kenstershiro avatar Jun 27 '25 14:06 kenstershiro