My Android camera Uri is returning a null value, but the Samsung fix is in place, help?

Question

So I am aware of the camera\'s issue on Samsung devices. You need to create a Uri before calling the camera intent like so:

Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(         


        

Answer 1

Your activity gets destroyed during the Camera activity operation and re-created afterwards. You should use onSaveInstanceState/onRestoreInstanceState mechanism in your activity to preserve the image URI (and any other data) upon the activity restarts.

Like this:

@Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
    super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
    if (mImageUri != null) {
        outState.putString("cameraImageUri", mImageUri.toString());
    }
}

@Override
protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState);
    if (savedInstanceState.containsKey("cameraImageUri")) {
        mImageUri = Uri.parse(savedInstanceState.getString("cameraImageUri"));
    }
}