Crash CameraX: No supported surface combination is found for camera device - Id : 0.

[mzorz]

I've seen this crash twice on 2 different emulators:
Android 5.1.1 (API 22)
Android 8.0 (API 26)
When attempting to start camera preview on CameraX:

crash on emulator API 26., using CAMERAX


2019-08-18 05:40:22.733 13519-13519/com.automattic.portkey E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.automattic.portkey, PID: 13519
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No supported surface combination is found for camera device - Id : 0.  May be attempting to bind too many use cases.
        at androidx.camera.camera2.impl.Camera2DeviceSurfaceManager.getSuggestedResolutions(Camera2DeviceSurfaceManager.java:177)
        at androidx.camera.core.CameraX.calculateSuggestedResolutions(CameraX.java:635)
        at androidx.camera.core.CameraX.bindToLifecycle(CameraX.java:191)
        at com.automattic.photoeditor.camera.CameraXBasicHandling.startCamera(CameraXBasicHandling.kt:143)
        at com.automattic.photoeditor.camera.CameraXBasicHandling.startUp(CameraXBasicHandling.kt:59)
        at com.automattic.photoeditor.camera.CameraXBasicHandling.activate(CameraXBasicHandling.kt:46)
        at com.automattic.photoeditor.state.BackgroundSurfaceManager.switchCameraPreviewOn(BackgroundSurfaceManager.kt:133)
        at com.automattic.portkey.compose.ComposeLoopFrameActivity.launchCameraPreview(ComposeLoopFrameActivity.kt:269)
        at com.automattic.portkey.compose.ComposeLoopFrameActivity.access$launchCameraPreview(ComposeLoopFrameActivity.kt:45)
        at com.automattic.portkey.compose.ComposeLoopFrameActivity$onCreate$3.run(ComposeLoopFrameActivity.kt:117)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:789)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:98)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:767)
2019-08-18 05:40:22.733 25693-25751/com.android.systemui D/EGL_emulation: eglMakeCurrent: 0x9cb84420: ver 3 0 (tinfo 0x9cb83540)

Second crash today:

08-23 12:12:10.099 30015-30015/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.automattic.portkey, PID: 30015
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No supported surface combination is found for camera device - Id : 0.  May be attempting to bind too many use cases.
        at androidx.camera.camera2.impl.Camera2DeviceSurfaceManager.getSuggestedResolutions(Camera2DeviceSurfaceManager.java:177)
        at androidx.camera.core.CameraX.calculateSuggestedResolutions(CameraX.java:635)
        at androidx.camera.core.CameraX.bindToLifecycle(CameraX.java:191)
        at com.automattic.photoeditor.camera.CameraXBasicHandling.startCamera(CameraXBasicHandling.kt:146)
        at com.automattic.photoeditor.camera.CameraXBasicHandling.startUp(CameraXBasicHandling.kt:62)
        at com.automattic.photoeditor.camera.CameraXBasicHandling.activate(CameraXBasicHandling.kt:49)
        at com.automattic.photoeditor.state.BackgroundSurfaceManager.switchCameraPreviewOn(BackgroundSurfaceManager.kt:141)
        at com.automattic.portkey.compose.ComposeLoopFrameActivity.launchCameraPreview(ComposeLoopFrameActivity.kt:338)
        at com.automattic.portkey.compose.ComposeLoopFrameActivity.access$launchCameraPreview(ComposeLoopFrameActivity.kt:50)
        at com.automattic.portkey.compose.ComposeLoopFrameActivity$onCreate$4.run(ComposeLoopFrameActivity.kt:155)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5254)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:903)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:698)

[mzorz]

Note: have not seen this problem when using our Camera2 implementation to calculate resolutions. Given this exception is thrown by CameraX (nothing we can do to deal with it "form within"), idea for a workaround: catch the exception and switch to Camera2 implementation, then fire the camera preview again? wdyt @aforcier ?

[aforcier]

@mzorz that sounds like a good approach for now, I'd maybe mark the reason why we're doing this in the code and point to this issue?

[mzorz]

Fixed in #78