Camera Orientation Incorrect on Pixel 6 about videokit

[cwnuk-lfl]

Thanks @olokobayusuf - emailed you at that address.

[olokobayusuf]

Hey @cwnuk-lfl , I've got inline responses below:

This previously worked as expected on this device, but the behavior changed when we upgraded to the latest version of Android available on the device. Other devices we have tested (see below) have not exhibited this issue, but do not seem to have the same OS updates available to them yet.

This is gonna be a tough one to find a workaround for, given that it's both device- and OS-version-specific.

When we start the camera, we are seeing this spamming the console in logcat on the Pixel 6:
2023/07/05 13:48:46.260 31104 31278 Error ACameraMetadata getConstEntry: cannot find metadata tag 65568
This log message does not seem to appear on devices without the issue.

I don't think this is related. Metadata tag 65568 should correspond to ACAMERA_CONTROL_AF_STATE (i.e. autofocus state).

A quick diagnostic to run is to check the cameraDevice.frontFacing of the front camera on the Pixel 6. If that value is incorrect, then that would both be the culprit and the place to build a workaround.

[cwnuk-lfl]

Hi @olokobayusuf thank you very much for the response! cameraDevice.frontFacing is reporting as true.

[olokobayusuf]

@cwnuk-lfl this is going to be pretty involved to investigate and potentially fix. Shoot me an email to discuss further.

[olokobayusuf]

NatDevice has officially been deprecated, as it has been merged into VideoKit. I'm moving this issue to the VideoKit repo.