TakePicture preferredCamera #126

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1. yasirkula commented on May 20, 2025

   

   yasirkula

   on May 20, 2025

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   I can confirm that PreferredCamera.Front isn't respected on S23 either. Sadly, this is the downside of using ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE Intent. It simply launches the default camera app on the device and Android OS hasn't implemented a way to enforce the front camera with this Intent. I'm using the following code which works on some/most camera apps but apparently not all:

   UnityNativeCamera/.github/AAR Source (Android)/java/com/yasirkula/unity/NativeCameraUtils.java

   Lines 148 to 157 in 07a6817

   	else
   	{
   	intent.putExtra( "android.intent.extras.LENS_FACING_FRONT", 1 );
   	intent.putExtra( "android.intent.extras.CAMERA_FACING", 1 );
   	intent.putExtra( "android.intent.extra.USE_FRONT_CAMERA", true );
   	intent.putExtra( "com.google.assistant.extra.USE_FRONT_CAMERA", true );
   	intent.putExtra( "camerafacing", "front" );
   	intent.putExtra( "default_camera", "1" );
   	}

   The only reliable solution is using Camera2/CameraX native APIs and creating our own native camera interface but I am not planning to do that for the time being. Instead I'll update the documentation to mention this problem.
2. yasirkula

   closed this as completedin 3ec5b56on May 20, 2025
3. MaiKuraki

   added a commit that references this issue on Jun 9, 2025

   Documented PreferredCamera.Front not being guaranteed (closed yasirku…

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   This issue will close once commit 3ec5b56 is merged into the 'master' branch.

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