Parent Activity is recreating after calling Camera intent in Android Oreo

Question

I am using Media intent capturing image. Once process completed result will be send back to parent. Above mentioned process working properly up to Nougat Os but in Oreo the parent activity is recreating again. How can i solve this issue.

Answer 1

Above mentioned process working properly up to Nougat Os but in Oreo the parent activity is recreating again

Your process is being terminated while the camera app is in the foreground. This is perfectly normal and has nothing to do with Android 8.0. It has everything to do with the available system RAM and what is all going on in the device at the time.

How can i solve this issue.

There is no issue. Your process can be terminated at any point when you do not have the foreground UI. Your code needs to deal with that.

For example, if you are using EXTRA_OUTPUT on your ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE Intent , you need to remember that value, as you do not get it back in any form of result from the camera app. Saving it in the saved instance state Bundle is a typical solution, as I illustrate in this sample app , particularly in this activity:

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package com.commonsware.android.camcon;

import android.Manifest;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.ActivityNotFoundException;
import android.content.ClipData;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.content.pm.ResolveInfo;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Build;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.MediaStore;
import android.support.v4.content.FileProvider;
import android.widget.Toast;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.List;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
  private static final String EXTRA_FILENAME=
    "com.commonsware.android.camcon.EXTRA_FILENAME";
  private static final String FILENAME="CameraContentDemo.jpeg";
  private static final int CONTENT_REQUEST=1337;
  private static final String AUTHORITY=
    BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID+".provider";
  private static final String PHOTOS="photos";
  private File output=null;

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    if (savedInstanceState==null) {
      output=new File(new File(getFilesDir(), PHOTOS), FILENAME);

      if (output.exists()) {
        output.delete();
      }
      else {
        output.getParentFile().mkdirs();
      }

      Intent i=new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
      Uri outputUri=FileProvider.getUriForFile(this, AUTHORITY, output);

      i.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, outputUri);

      if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT>=Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION);
      }
      else if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT>=Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
        ClipData clip=
          ClipData.newUri(getContentResolver(), "A photo", outputUri);

        i.setClipData(clip);
        i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION);
      }
      else {
        List<ResolveInfo> resInfoList=
          getPackageManager()
            .queryIntentActivities(i, PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY);

        for (ResolveInfo resolveInfo : resInfoList) {
          String packageName = resolveInfo.activityInfo.packageName;
          grantUriPermission(packageName, outputUri,
            Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION);
        }
      }

      try {
        startActivityForResult(i, CONTENT_REQUEST);
      }
      catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
        Toast.makeText(this, R.string.msg_no_camera, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        finish();
      }
    }
    else {
      output=(File)savedInstanceState.getSerializable(EXTRA_FILENAME);
    }
  }

  @Override
  protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
    super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);

    outState.putSerializable(EXTRA_FILENAME, output);
  }

  @Override
  protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode,
                                  Intent data) {
    if (requestCode == CONTENT_REQUEST) {
      if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
        Intent i=new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
        Uri outputUri=FileProvider.getUriForFile(this, AUTHORITY, output);

        i.setDataAndType(outputUri, "image/jpeg");
        i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);

        try {
          startActivity(i);
        }
        catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
          Toast.makeText(this, R.string.msg_no_viewer, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }

        finish();
      }
    }
  }
}

Here, I hold onto the output location in the saved instance state Bundle , so even if my process is terminated, I will get my output back.