PhoneGap App Crash when take a new photo with Camera Plugin

Question

I'm developing a mobile app with cordova/phonegap and I've installed Camera plugin. I am able to open the camera and click the image but after that app crashes. here is the crash log:

    java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=34, result=-1, data=null} to activity {com.phonegap.helloworld/com.phonegap.helloworld.CordovaApp}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: filename cannot be null
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:3510)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleSendResult(ActivityThread.java:3553)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1200(ActivityThread.java:165)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1374)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:176)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5455)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1209)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1025)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: filename cannot be null
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at android.media.ExifInterface.<init>(ExifInterface.java:121)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at org.apache.cordova.camera.ExifHelper.createOutFile(ExifHelper.java:66)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at org.apache.cordova.camera.CameraLauncher.processResultFromCamera(CameraLauncher.java:430)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at org.apache.cordova.camera.CameraLauncher.onActivityResult(CameraLauncher.java:610)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at org.apache.cordova.CordovaActivity.onActivityResult(CordovaActivity.java:784)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at android.app.Activity.dispatchActivityResult(Activity.java:5563)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:3506)
    E/AndroidRuntime(22226):    ... 11 more

code that I have used to open the camera is :

   var pictureSource; // picture source
var destinationType; // sets the format of returned value
document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);

function onDeviceReady() {
  // alert("ready-----")
  pictureSource = navigator.camera.PictureSourceType;
  destinationType = navigator.camera.DestinationType;
}

function capturePhoto() {
  alert(navigator.camera);
  navigator.camera.getPicture(onPhotoDataSuccess, onFail, {
    quality: 20,
    destinationType: destinationType.FILE_URI,
    targetWidth: 200,
    targetHeight: 200,
    saveToPhotoAlbum: true,
    sourceType: pictureSource.CAMERA
  });
}

function onPhotoDataSuccess(imageURI) {
  // alert("success--");
  var smallImage = document.getElementById('smallImage');
  smallImage.style.display = 'block';
  smallImage.src = imageURI;
  // smallImage.src = "data:image/jpeg;base64," + imageData;
}

function onFail(message) {
  alert('Failed because: ' + message);
}

The bug is already logged in Apache Cordova.

Help!!!

Answer 1

Try replacing your capturePhoto() function with this (this is working code from my own app):

function capturePhoto() {
    var options = {
        quality: 75,
        destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI,
        sourceType: Camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA,
        mediaType: Camera.MediaType.CAMERA,
        encodingType: Camera.EncodingType.JPEG,
        targetWidth: 200,
        targetHeight: 200,
        saveToPhotoAlbum: true
    };
    navigator.camera.getPicture(onPhotoDataSuccess, onFail, options);
}

Answer 2

please change your destination type:

destinationType: destinationType.FILE_URI

to

destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI

if you required it as a base64-encoding image, then change destination type as:

destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.DATA_URL

also make sure that you have added the write external storage permission in your manifest file.