Xamarin Media Plugin Crashes when second photo is taken

Question

I am using the Plugin.Media (jamesmontemagno/MediaPlugin) plugin for Xamarin and I am having an issue with accepting a picture. When I take the second picture (the first picture works fine) and I click to accept the image the whole app crashes with no output as to the error. I have tried trapping the error but cannot find where it is occurring. I have as suggested removing the min SDK from Android manifest, but the crash still happens.

I have tried looking through the output in visual studio but it is always different. I am assuming the code works as it takes the image and gives me data back, to be clear, it only happens when trying to accept the second image.

private string GetTimestamp(DateTime value)
    {
        string timestamp = value.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmssfff");
        string filename = timestamp + ".jpg";
        return filename;
    }

public Command CaptureImage => new Command(TakePicture);            
    private async void TakePicture()
    {         
        await CrossMedia.Current.Initialize();           

        if (!CrossMedia.Current.IsCameraAvailable || !CrossMedia.Current.IsTakePhotoSupported)
        {
            //Some message
            return;
        }

        var file = await CrossMedia.Current.TakePhotoAsync(new Plugin.Media.Abstractions.StoreCameraMediaOptions
        {
            Directory = "FoodSnap",
            Name = GetTimestamp(DateTime.Now) //Gets a unique file name,
            PhotoSize = Plugin.Media.Abstractions.PhotoSize.Custom,
            CustomPhotoSize = 50
        });

        if (file == null)
            return;

        FilePath = file.Path;       
    }

I am completely stumped as to why this is happening. I am also having trouble refreshing my ViewModel when data changes in the page I am using to take the image. I can't help wondering if this has something to do with it.

Answer 1

I solved the problem by testing each line of code. Once I removed PhotoSize = Plugin.Media.Abstractions.PhotoSize.Custom I could take as many pictures as I need. I did use the Github information for the plugin.

I would be interested to know what I did wrong to cause the error. I would suggest that I have misunderstood the tutorial on Github.