If the android version value in the build.yml is changed to a version >= 7 it causes the camera to crash, I was able to replicate this in the sample app (I actually removed the version which I presume then uses the latest). This seems to be due to a change in the manifest at this point (or possibly some other changes? it was working in the 7.5 release): github.com/rhomobile/rhodes/commit/6420050e423a492f0606a8110264bab58d843f88