cannot open camera "0" without camera permission

Question

I have the following in my manifest

<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.autofocus" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />

however I receive this error

An error occurred while connecting to camera 0: Status(-8, EX_SERVICE_SPECIFIC): '1: validateClientPermissionsLocked:1165: Caller ... (PID 10153, UID 6049) cannot open camera "0" without camera permission'

I am attempting to get a camera working using this code

public static Camera getCameraInstance(){
    Camera c = null;
    try {
        c = Camera.open();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("getCameraInstance", "exception", e);
    }
    return c; // returns null if camera is unavailable
}

How do I get this camera working?

Answer 1

Need to enable permissions at runtime. The above error is outputted when the 0 indexed camera does not have permissions. Adding permissions to the manifest is not what enables it on the phone... the below code will.

    public static void checkCameraPermissions(Context context){
        if (ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(context, Manifest.permission.CAMERA)
                != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED)
        {
            // Permission is not granted
            Log.d("checkCameraPermissions", "No Camera Permissions");
            ActivityCompat.requestPermissions((Activity) context,
                    new String[] { Manifest.permission.CAMERA },
                    100);
        }
    }