Correct handling of exception: “getParameters failed (empty parameters)”

Question

I have a camera app in the Google Play store with Google Analytics installed. I keep getting the following crash report:

getParameters failed (empty

Answer 1

Is there a specific Android device that experiences this error? Or do you see it across many devices.

In general, you should not see this kind of an error. It's possible your application has some sort of race condition which results in this, but it'd have to involve trying to call getParameters on an uninitialized or already-released camera.

It could also be an error in the device-specific camera code, or a rare race condition somewhere in the camera code stack. Without more detail (logcat or Android bugreport from such a crash), it's impossible to tell - the error itself just says that the device-specific camera code returned an empty set of parameters.

But once you get this error, there's not a lot you can do - the camera subsystem is in some odd state. If you want to try to deal with it, all I can suggest is to close and reopen the camera device.