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When trying to change the camera from front facing to back facing on an android wont work, but for any IOS devices works perfectly any idea what the problem is?

Icon on select: UpdateContext({EnableFront:!EnableFront})

Camera: If(EnableFront=true,1,0)

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poweractivate 11,078 Most Valuable Professional on at

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@JukeNuke

We cannot currently confirm or reproduce for sure your issue with iOS, but it sounds like something that could be true.

If you try a Variable (i.e. Set(Var,something) instead of Context does it still have the issue in iOS?

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Hi @JukeNuke

It's possible that for the Android device you're using, Camera ID 1 doesn't correspond to the front camera.

To debug this, I'd add a slider control to your screen, and set the Max property value to something like 10. Next, set the Camera property of your Camera control to the value of your slider.

If you now run your app and adjust the slider control, do any of the numeric values result in the front camera working?

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JukeNuke 59 on at

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The issue isn't with IOS its with the android devices. I found out because the camera functions for android are 3 and 4 and IOS is 1 and 2. So I just incorporated all of them which isn't ideal since you now have to push the icon 3 times for it to get to the back camera.

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