[bug] Sometimes the camera track gets stopped randomly!
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Domain
- audio-video-rtc, mobile-dev
Research direction
Start by investigating the Flutter SDK's camera-track behavior on Android and iOS, using the reported device changes and foreground/background switching as reproduction cases. The issue names no files or tests, so first locate the camera-track lifecycle entry points and gather logs during a failure. Done means the camera stream continues through these transitions without requiring a camera toggle.
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Description
Describe the bug
Sometimes the camera track gets stopped. Remote call participants will still gets a track, unmuted, but actually no camera stream is reproduced (usually ends with a black camera video).
To Reproduce
Happens apparently randomly or like changing used media device or switching multiple time between foreground/background app.
Expected behavior
The track should always continue. The workaround for this is turn off and then on again the camera and then everything is restored.
Platform information
Flutter SDK version: Android/iOS
Flutter version:
Flutter 3.35.6 • channel stable • https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
Framework • revision 9f455d2486 (3 weeks ago) • 2025-10-08 14:55:31 -0500
Engine • hash a5f2c36e367c13f868cfe98db5806f562c52c35e (revision d2913632a4) (24 days ago) • 2025-10-07 17:26:21.000Z
Tools • Dart 3.9.2 • DevTools 2.48.0
Plugin version: 2.5.3
Flutter target OS: Any
Flutter target OS version: Any
Flutter console log:
- Dominant language
- Dart
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- 421
- Forks
- 260
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
- 11
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