useFront property of camera no longer works about appinventor-sources HOT 6 CLOSED

We need to wait until we get the project upgrader done

== Hal Abelson
[email protected]
Prof. of Comp. Sci. and Eng.
MIT Dept. of Elec. Eng. and Comp. Sci.
MIT Media Lab, Second Class Faculty

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Mark Sherman [email protected]
wrote:

This property relied on an undocumented feature of the android camera
system, so there was a well-known risk that it may stop working someday.
That day came faster than anticipated.

It appears that the feature has been removed from nearly all androids,
including older ones. My guess is a google play services update was pushed
out that removed it, even to old 2.3 devices.

Leaving the useFront feature may cause more confusion than anything else.
In current testing I, and some others on the forums, can't find a single
remaining device where it works.

What I do not know is the right way to remove it. There exist projects
that use it, is there a mechanism to check projects on load to nudge the
components to updated versions? I believe there is, I just don't know
enough about it to complete this recommendation alone.

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We could update the logic to throw exception (with proper error message) so that an exclamation mark is displayed on the block. This way, users won't use this feature anymore. This can be in place till project upgrader is done.

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Another reason to get the upgrader out quickly. Or at least a quick path
to mark that bloc bad, as as first example of using the upgrader.

== Hal Abelson
[email protected]
Prof. of Comp. Sci. and Eng.
MIT Dept. of Elec. Eng. and Comp. Sci.
MIT Media Lab, Second Class Faculty

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 7:26 PM, kkashi01 [email protected] wrote:

We could update the logic to throw exception (with proper error message)
so that an exclamation mark is displayed on the block. This way, users
won't use this feature anymore. This can be in place till project upgrader
is done.

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code to mark bad blocks has been around for quite a while: #112

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see pull request #335

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Usefront was undocumented in pr #652
It's not clear how we can make this work, short of writing our own Camera app, rather than launching Google's. we'll leave this unimplemented, and people will need to select the front camera manually, once Camera is launched.

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