Photo capture Intent causes NullPointerException on Samsung phones only

Question

Photo capture Intent causes NullPointerException on Samsung phones only.

Implementation below.

final Button capture = (Button)findViewById(R.id.capture_button);
capture.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
        startActivityForResult(cameraIntent, CAMERA_PIC_REQUEST);

    }
});


protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {  
    if (requestCode == CAMERA_PIC_REQUEST) {  

        Bitmap thumbnail = (Bitmap)data.getExtras().get("data");
        ImageView image = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.photoResultView);
        image.setImageBitmap(thumbnail);
    }
}

@Matt the image.setImageBitmap(thumbnail); line as thumbnail was null — Sheraz Ahmad Khilji, Sep 21 '14 at 19:48

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 11 '11 at 19:08

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I found a fix (not my work) that makes it work for Samsung devices. The blog with explanation can be found here.

However, using this fix on non-Samsung phones returns the wrong image, so I would use an

if(imageURI != null) {
    // do it the normal way
else {
    // do it the "Samsung" way
}

edited Aug 11 '11 at 19:08

Octavian Helm

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answered Aug 11 '11 at 19:06

Ashterothi

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as @Pyrodante suggested "However, using this fix on non-Samsung phones returns the wrong image, so I would use an " could any one please post the complete code , which should work on both samsung and non samsung's – LMK Nov 20 '13 at 11:41

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '15 at 17:21

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Just got the same issue on a Samsung S4 and found out that adding configChanges to the AndroidManifest.xml solved the problem:

<activity
    android:name=".YourActivity"
    android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize"
    android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
</activity>

answered Dec 04 '15 at 17:21

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Works for me! Weird Samsung! – Steven Sep 28 '16 at 12:56

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 18 '13 at 09:18

you can check a little simple way over here to get Uri.

Get camera capture image path in android

calling camera

Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
                startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(cameraIntent,"Select Picture"), CAMERA_PIC_REQUEST1);

on result activity

final ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();     
final String[] p1 = new String[] {
    MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns._ID,
    MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.DATE_TAKEN
};
Cursor c1 = cr.query(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, p1, null, null, p1[1] + " DESC");      
if ( c1.moveToFirst() ) {
    String uristringpic = "content://media/external/images/media/" +c1.getInt(0);
    Uri newuri = Uri.parse(uristringpic);
    Log.i("TAG", "newuri   "+newuri);                    
}
c1.close();
}

Then you can get Uri path capture image

Get camera capture image path in android

score -2 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 25 '12 at 21:11

Get camera capture image path in android

calling camera

Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(cameraIntent,"Select Picture"), CAMERA_PIC_REQUEST1);

on result activity

final ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();     
final String[] p1 = new String[] {
    MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns._ID,
    MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.DATE_TAKEN
};

Cursor c1 = cr.query(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, p1, null, null, p1[1] + " DESC");      
if ( c1.moveToFirst() ) {
    String uristringpic = "content://media/external/images/media/" +c1.getInt(0);
    Uri newuri = Uri.parse(uristringpic);
    Log.i("TAG", "newuri   "+newuri);
}
c1.close();

then u can get Uri path capture image

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Photo capture Intent causes NullPointerException on Samsung phones only

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