Question

I’ve made a app with two buttons

• one to select an image from the gallery
• one to take a new image with the camera

The process for the gallery select works fine, if I take a picture with the camera it keep getting Failure delivering result ResultInfo error. And it seems the image is not writen to the folder.

Since both return the same I have one handler to cope with the result;

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {  
        if (requestCode == 1) {  
            if (resultCode == RESULT_OK && data.getData() != null){
                try {
                    Log.i("YADDA",data.getData().toString());
                    Uri targetUri = data.getData();
                    if (targetUri != null) {
                        //Log.i("YADDA",targetUri.toString());
                        myImage nsi = new myImage();
                        nsi.ThumbNail = getThumbnail(targetUri);
                        nsi.path = targetUri;
                        nsi.FileName = FileNameBase + "_" +     String.valueOf(1 + photos.size());
                        photos.add(nsi);
                    }

                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }

                DrawImageGallery();
            }
        }

The Button handlers;

    nsbu1.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener() {
         public void onClick(View v){
             Intent photoPickerIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
             photoPickerIntent.setType("image/*");
             startActivityForResult(photoPickerIntent, 1);
        }
    });

    nsbu2.setOnClickListener(new Button.OnClickListener() {
         public void onClick(View v){
             Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
                 // Uri myuri=Uri.fromFile(new     File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath(), FileNameBase + ".jpg"));
                 Uri myuri=Uri.fromFile(new File("/mnt/sdcard/tmp/" + FileNameBase + ".jpg"));

                 Log.i("YADDA", myuri.toString());
                 intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, myuri );

                 startActivityForResult(cameraIntent, 1);  
            }
        });

Things I tried:

• I’ve double checked the, manifest for write permissions on the SDcard
• wierd thing is, the handler must be correct, because a picture from gallery works fine
• Some version of android have a bug with this camera handler, but I’ve check, my Nexus S has is not one of them.
• googled/debugged for hours and hours

Logcat output;

 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898): java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=1, result=-1, data=Intent { act=inline-data (has extras) }} to activity {com.android.spot/com.android.spot.newsite}: java.lang.NullPointerException
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:2532)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleSendResult(ActivityThread.java:2574)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2000(ActivityThread.java:117)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:961)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at com.android.spot.newsite.onActivityResult(newsite.java:351)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at android.app.Activity.dispatchActivityResult(Activity.java:3908)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:2528)
 09-01 10:02:59.085: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1898):     ... 11 more

Answer 1

I just helped a person with the same error on the PhoneGap issue list. I believe you are missing the permission:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

from your AndroidManifest.xml file. We need to be able the write the captured image out to a .jpg file.