Actually detect flash support for active camera

Bug #1390423 reported by Brendan Donegan
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
camera-app (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Ugo Riboni

Bug Description

Most front cameras on phones do not have a flash, so naturally the control for this in the sub-controls doesn't work. However there is nothing to visually distinguish this from the other controls (Location and HDR) that do work, so it's slightly confusing from a users perspective. This control should be removed, or at least be dependent on the presence of a flash for the front camera

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Changed in camera-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in camera-app:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in camera-app:
assignee: nobody → Ugo Riboni (uriboni)
Revision history for this message
Ugo Riboni (uriboni) wrote :

This is fixed in trunk. On krilling for example flipping to the front camera when the flash is on will not show any flash control. flipping to the back camera will bring back the flash

Changed in camera-app:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in camera-app (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Ugo Riboni (uriboni) wrote :

This is actually hard coded at the moment, so re-opening the bug and working on actually detecting if the current camera supports flash by asking Android

Changed in camera-app:
status: Fix Committed → In Progress
Changed in camera-app (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Ugo Riboni (uriboni)
summary: - Front camera controls includes Flash type selection even though this is
- not supported
+ Actually detect flash support for active camera
Changed in camera-app (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
no longer affects: camera-app
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