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Problem with camera on Android devices taking a second photo

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The PowerApps camera control on Android devices has started behaving strangely.

 

When you use the camera from the Power App to take a photo, and then want to take a second photo, you can no longer: a message appears indicating that the camera is in use: "The camera is not configured correctly, it is currently in use or the creator of the application has not configured it correctly."

 

Note: The same application works correctly on IOS devices.

 

The temporary solution (work-around) for taking subsequent photos is (without closing Power App) to momentarily switch to another application and then switch back to Power App.

"La cámara no esta configurada correctamente, está actualmente en uso o el creador de la aplicacion no la ha configurado correctamente". Translation: "The camera is not configured correctly, it is currently in use or the creator of the application has not configured it correctly.""La cámara no esta configurada correctamente, está actualmente en uso o el creador de la aplicacion no la ha configurado correctamente". Translation: "The camera is not configured correctly, it is currently in use or the creator of the application has not configured it correctly."

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  • Krishna Bhardwaj Profile Picture
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    I was facing same problem earlier, to resolve this error I create one variable(cameraOn) for Camera property of my camera and when I'm closing camera screen I'm setting up that variable to -1(Set(cameraOn, -1)) on exit button's onSelect property. It is working fine now on my phone.

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