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Taimur
Taimur

Reputation: 3231

Can an HTML5/javascript Android app access the camera/voice recorder?

I'm thinking of getting into Android app development and I hear HTML5 apps are becoming more popular now. Can HTML5 + javascript be used to access media inputs on the phone, or is this only available to Java apps?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3218

Answers (2)

Jeshurun
Jeshurun

Reputation: 23186

Frameworks like Phonegap make this possible by providing a wrapper around the api of each device it supports, which can be called from your html5 application built using it. Check their site here or their api documentation for the camera api here.

Upvotes: 3

Zakaria
Zakaria

Reputation: 15070

In pure HTML5/JS, you can't.

But, you can use fameworks like Phonegap that provides JS libraries allowing you to access to the device capabilities such as GPS, camera, etc.

Upvotes: 3

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