iOSKit AVCaptureDeviceInput Crash

Targets iOS
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Hi

Is anyone aware of a crash when Starting the Barcode Read in iOSKit (running ios15 on iPhone Pro 12)?

At line:
dim input as AVCaptureDeviceInput = AVCaptureDeviceInput.DeviceInputWithDeviceError(captureDevice, err)

Does anyone know if there’s a work-around?

Thanks

Chris

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Not aware. Do you have a crash log you can share?

Just to make sure you’re running on a real device and not simulator, right?

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Yes, real device, thanks. Crash Logs here. Thanks very much Jason

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From the crash logs:

This app has crashed because it attempted to access privacy-sensitive data without a usage description. The app’s Info.plist must contain an NSCameraUsageDescription key with a string value explaining to the user how the app uses this data.

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Thanks very much Jeremie. Cool it’s not a bug. Now I just need to figure out how to do it! :smiley:

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@Jeremie_L , that worked, thanks very much. @Jason_King, I think there still may be a problem. It goes though the motions and asks permission to use the camera, but then nothing. This is the info.plist I’m using:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key>
	<string>Uses your Library to scan barcodes</string>
	<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>
	<string>Uses your Camera to scan barcodes</string>
	<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
	<string>English</string>
	<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
	<string>iOS_Kit</string>
	<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
	<string>com.jasonking.iOS-Kit</string>
	<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
	<string>6.0</string>
	<key>CFBundleName</key>
	<string>iOS_Kit</string>
	<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
	<string>1.0</string>
	<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
	<string>1</string>
</dict>
</plist>

I’ve tried it on a 12 Pro, SE and iPad Pro. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks again. Chris

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Hi Jason. Are you still maintaining this code or should I try to look for some other alternative for scanning barcodes? Thanks again

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Lets make this a feature request too please, the barcode scanning is a highly used feature in IOs and maybe xojo could use it for their xdc app.

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Ironically we used Jason’s code in the first iOS XDC app when we were doing conference e-passes.

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That’s what i mean, but it’s not embed into the actual language. i can’t undderstand why actually since iOSKit is MIT licensed… ?

For even experienced developers, declares in xojo are really hard to get right.

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Every little thing we add to the framework makes every iOS app footprint larger and we’re very selective to add things that everyone will eventually need

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I don’t get it, you have a compiler that would strip out anything unused right ? This should keep the app as small as possible, which is a must yes.
I dont see why it’s an issue to give users more and better features, even being selective. Maybe it’s better to revise your vision here, since ios still seems a little lacking in featues. Most importantly features that are really common, many apps.

@Chris_O_Brien did you checkout the API 2 branch of iOSKit ?

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did you checkout the API 2 branch of iOSKit ?

Thanks DerkJ. I actually didn’t, but I will - I hadn’t spotted it.

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Thanks again DerkJ. That was my problem…

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