[BUG] Unable to load camera with Community Toolkit update 2.0.0

[dharamhbtik]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

We have migrated our app to .NET 9 from .NET 8 and we were using community toolkit camera for taking pictures. After updating the toolkit to latest version which was released on 18th December 2024, it started crashing the app .

It is throwing below error

[mono-rt] [ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: void AndroidX.Camera.Core.Preview.SetSurfaceProvider(AndroidX.Camera.Core.Preview/ISurfaceProvider)
[mono-rt]    at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore.Start[<StartUseCase>d__14](<StartUseCase>d__14& stateMachine)
[mono-rt]    at CommunityToolkit.Maui.Core.CameraManager.StartUseCase(CancellationToken token)
[mono-rt]    at CommunityToolkit.Maui.Core.CameraManager.<>c__DisplayClass41_0.<<PlatformConnectCamera>b__0>d.MoveNext() in /_/src/CommunityToolkit.Maui.Camera/CameraManager.android.cs:line 164
[mono-rt] --- End of stack trace from previous location ---
[mono-rt]    at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.<>c.<ThrowAsync>b__128_0(Object state)
[mono-rt]    at Android.App.SyncContext.<>c__DisplayClass2_0.<Post>b__0() in /Users/runner/work/1/s/xamarin-android/src/Mono.Android/Android.App/SyncContext.cs:line 36
[mono-rt]    at Java.Lang.Thread.RunnableImplementor.Run() in /Users/runner/work/1/s/xamarin-android/src/Mono.Android/Java.Lang/Thread.cs:line 37
[mono-rt]    at Java.Lang.IRunnableInvoker.n_Run(IntPtr jnienv, IntPtr native__this) in /Users/runner/work/1/s/xamarin-android/src/Mono.Android/obj/Release/net9.0/android-35/mcw/Java.Lang.IRunnable.cs:line 59
[mono-rt]    at Android.Runtime.JNINativeWrapper.Wrap_JniMarshal_PP_V(_JniMarshal_PP_V callback, IntPtr jnienv, IntPtr klazz) in /Users/runner/work/1/s/xamarin-android/src/Mono.Android/Android.Runtime/JNINativeWrapper.g.cs:line 22

Expected Behavior

Camera should open with preview and user should be able to capture images.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Download the samples provided in the community toolkit repo
2. Update the toolkit camera version to latest version
3. run the application and open the camera page
4. It will crash

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/tree/b01a18dcef03f955523b8ec71a3f02ec98c96824/samples/CommunityToolkit.Maui.Sample

Environment

- .NET MAUI CommunityToolkit:10.0.0
- OS: Android 13
- .NET MAUI: 9.0

Anything else?

No response

[brminnick]

Please provide us a sample reproduction to help us fix the bug. I am unable to reproduce this error.

Here is a screen shot of the CameraView page running in CommunityToolkit.Maui.Sample:

[dharamhbtik]

try to open it 2 or three times

[dotnet-policy-service]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has been marked as requiring author feedback but has not had any activity for 3 days. It will be closed if no further activity occurs within 2 days of this comment. If it is closed, feel free to comment when you are able to provide the additional information and we will re-investigate.

[dotnet-policy-service]

We haven't received a reproduction sample from you. The issue is closed.