Android CameraX Error retrieving camcorder profile params

Question

I am migrating to cameraX and faced the exception

androidx.camera.core.InitializationException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error retrieving camcorder profile params

The error-log states that this error is thrown when calling

            cameraProvider = cameraProviderFuture.get()

I cannot reproduce this error on any device.

I initialize the Camera here:

private fun initCameraProvider() {
    val cameraProviderFuture = ProcessCameraProvider.getInstance(this) //Error is thrown here
    cameraProviderFuture.addListener(Runnable {
        cameraProvider = cameraProviderFuture.get()
        val metrics = DisplayMetrics().also {
            previewView?.display?.getRealMetrics(it) 
        }
        val screenAspectRatio = ImageUtils.aspectRatio(metrics.widthPixels, metrics.heightPixels)
        val rotation = previewView?.display?.rotation ?: 0

        preview = Preview.Builder()
                .setTargetAspectRatio(screenAspectRatio)
                .setTargetRotation(rotation)
                .build()
        analyzer = BarcodeAnalyzer(previewView, overlay) { onSuccess(it) }
        val cameraSelector = CameraSelector.DEFAULT_BACK_CAMERA

        imageAnalyzer = ImageAnalysis.Builder()
                .setBackpressureStrategy(ImageAnalysis.STRATEGY_KEEP_ONLY_LATEST)
                .setTargetAspectRatio(screenAspectRatio)
                .build()
                .also {
                    it.setAnalyzer(cameraExecutor, analyzer)
                }


        val useCaseGroup = UseCaseGroup.Builder()
                .addUseCase(preview)
                .addUseCase(imageAnalyzer)
                .build()
        try {
            cameraProvider?.unbindAll()
            preview.setSurfaceProvider(previewView?.surfaceProvider)
            camera = cameraProvider?.bindToLifecycle(this, cameraSelector, useCaseGroup)
        } catch (exc: Exception) {
            Log.e(TAG, "Use case binding failed", exc)
        }


    }, ContextCompat.getMainExecutor(this))
}

Answer 1

Update: (24/03/2021 - dd/MM/yyyy)

The bug has been fixed in CameraX 1.0.0-rc04 and 1.0.0-alpha23. Just update the dependencies to this version or above

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Update: (22/03/2021 - dd/MM/yyyy)

There should be a new CameraX release soon which fixes the problem, in the mean time you can apply this workaround:

// CameraX core library
def camerax_version = '1.0.0-rc03'
implementation("androidx.camera:camera-core") {
    version {
        strictly "$camerax_version"
    }
    because "Force use 1.0.0-rc03"
}

// CameraX Camera2 extensions
implementation("androidx.camera:camera-camera2") {
    version {
        strictly "$camerax_version"
    }
    because "Force use 1.0.0-rc03"
}

// CameraX Lifecycle library
implementation("androidx.camera:camera-lifecycle") {
    version {
        strictly "$camerax_version"
    }
    because "Force use 1.0.0-rc03"
}
implementation "androidx.camera:camera-extensions:1.0.0-alpha22"
implementation 'androidx.camera:camera-view:1.0.0-alpha22'

as described here

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Currently there is bug in CameraX affecting (at least) Samsung S20+ and Galaxy Note 10+

Here the issue link for updates: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/181599852

Answer 2

I got the same issue using camerax version 1.1.0-alpha01 on Samsung s20+ and note 10+. Try to downgrade to 1.0.0-beta11.