Android 13 - Image and Video selection from camera is buggy

[1t5j0y]

Describe the bug

1. User is not prompted for camera permission and needs to go to OS settings for Avni app and explicitly provide permission for camera to work.
2. For form element of type video, after recording the video, there is no way to go back to the app.

To Reproduce
See video:
https://github.com/avniproject/avni-client/assets/54208632/bd311c34-1247-43b1-97ae-d616c95e85f6

Analysis details:

• Issue exists in 5.0.4(already released) as well
• User can continue uploading image/video from folder
• Issue not occurring in android 10 version and might not occur in other versions as well
• So not a high priority for 5.1.0 release

Expected behavior
User should be prompted for camera permission in app if not already provided.
User should be able to come back to the Avni app after recording a video triggered from a video form element.

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• OS: Android 13

Developer Checklist
Developer fixing the bug should fill this checklist.

• Does the fix require extensive regression testing?
• Are you mentioning the required scenarios that could be affected?

[ashusvnath]

@mahalakshme This seems to be the case with current 5.1.0 build also

[ashusvnath]

The first media capture succeeds (be it image or video), all following media captures fail.

[ashusvnath]

This problem exists both on emulator and actual phones

[ashusvnath]

exception captured from Android logs.

FATAL EXCEPTION: main

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.content.ContentValues.put(java.lang.String, java.lang.Long)' on a null object reference

FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.android.camera2, PID: 11529
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.content.ContentValues.put(java.lang.String, java.lang.Long)' on a null object reference
	at com.android.camera.VideoModule.saveVideo(VideoModule.java:1263)
	at com.android.camera.VideoModule.stopVideoRecording(VideoModule.java:1513)
	at com.android.camera.VideoModule.onStopVideoRecording(VideoModule.java:656)
	at com.android.camera.VideoModule.onInfo(VideoModule.java:1296)
	at android.media.MediaRecorder$EventHandler.handleMessage(MediaRecorder.java:1622)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7872)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:936)

[ashusvnath]

Similar issue found in Android 13 : flutter/flutter#118443

[ashusvnath]

Video capture returns a response where didCancel is true. Root cause seems to be Exception listed above.

[ashusvnath]

A workaround exists.
User can record video directly using camera and choose the appropriate media file for the form element.

[ashusvnath]

Issue persists after upgarding to react-native-image-picker version 7.0.2.

[ashusvnath]

Created issue #1174 to track inability to capture video from app.
The code changes are in branch 5.1.0 because that is affected too.