Cordova media-capture.captureImage plug-in not working + file not working with media-capture

Question

I've been developing an Android app in Cordova 3.3.0-0.3.1. Using the tigbro JQMobile-Angular adapter. Everything was going swimmingly until I tried to access files created by the media-capture plugin to make thumbnails. Not able to get access to any of the files I'm creating... there is an open SO thread here:

Reading a file created by the media capture plugin in Cordova - Creating Thumbnails

So a SO poweruser kindly offered to help by looking at the code, and asked me to make a smaller, simpler app in which to test. This is where it gets weird. I built a small app with the basic code using Phonegap (3.3). Now I'm having problems with the media-capture plugin itself. I can fire up the capture plugin, and take a photo. But every time I push the accept checkmark in the capture process, the error handler is called with "3: Canceled". I've tested on a Motorola Droid Razr MAXX and a Nexus 5, same result (although the Nexus 5 has slightly different fail behavior, it throws the error in the background but doesn't end the capture process).

I upgraded my Phonegap CLI to 3.4, and updated the platform of the project. (Didn't update plugins as I don't see any documentation on that.) No change.

Here's the additional weirdness. If I rebuild the project as a Phonegap Build project (and build remotely), the JQMobile elements are broken but the capture plugin works! (Still having problem accessing the files though.)

I noticed in the Cordova documentation that there were some updates to the plugins around not being able to use the file plugin with media-capture:

https://cordova.apache.org/news/2014/04/23/plugins.release.html

I think that because I am not specifying plugin versions in my full project that it should be using the most up-to-date plugins when I perform a local build. Is that correct? Should I update my Cordova 3.3 to 3.4.1? And the platform as well? Is there some danger to breaking my project?

Here is the link to the repo for the simple app:

https://github.com/marcsyp/thumbnail

Any ideas on some of these problems?

Answer 1

I fixed this by rolling back to earlier versions of the plugins.