Summary: Take a picture utilizing Camera Intent and display the photo with correct orientation (works on hopefully all devices)

Question

It seems to be the simplest thing in the world: taking a picture within your Android app using the default camera activity. However, there are many pitfalls which are covere

Answer 1

I experience some problems when using this with Sony Xperia Z5.

I added this and it got a lot better.

if (buildType.contains("sony")&& buildDevice.contains("e5823")) {
                setPreDefinedCameraUri = true;}

But 4 times out of 22 it restarted the camera and once it restarted two times. I restarted the App due to every test. Is there some way to get around this or do I accept this result?

The thing is that if the camera restarts I can press the back button twice and boom, the image is there in my Imageview and saved