I’m working on a C# MAUI application that needs to capture photos from the device’s camera and upload them to a server. I’m encountering two specific issues:

Capturing Photos
When I call CapturePhotoAsync() from the Microsoft.Maui.Media namespace, the application crashes with the following error:

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

I’ve added the necessary camera permissions to the Android manifest:

How can I resolve this error and successfully capture photos in my MAUI application?

Uploading Photos to a Server
After capturing the photo, I want to upload it to a server using an HTTP POST request. I'm using the HttpClient class to make the request, but I'm unsure about the best way to handle the file upload. Should I convert the photo to a byte array and include it in the request body? Or is there a better approach?

Here’s a snippet of my current code for uploading the photo:

`> var photo = await CapturePhotoAsync();

var byteArray = photo.ToByteArray();

var content = new ByteArrayContent(byteArray);
content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue(“image/jpeg”);

var response = await _httpClient.PostAsync(“https://example.com/upload”, content);`

Is this the correct way to upload the photo, or am I missing something?