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Jarnal
Jarnal

Reputation: 2158

Cordova - Why is camera.getpicture not working?

I am trying to get the camera feature to work. I am testing on a connected samsung galaxy tablet. The app launches successfully, but navigator.camera.getpicture does not launch the camera. Can you help with this?

Here are the steps I followed: I created a cordova hello project using the following steps on (Windows 7):

PART A: (setup cordova) (steps from this answer here ): C:> npm install -g cordova

From command prompt, navigate to the folder you want to create your project using:

cordova create hello com.example.hello HelloWorld
cd hello
Define the OS you want to suppport for example:

cordova platform add wp8
Install plugins (If needed). For example we want the following:

cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.device
cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.camera
cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.media-capture
cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.media

Part B: Add code for testing camera features (from code from Cordova camera docs) Replaced index.html code with the following code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Capture Photo</title>

    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="cordova-2.2.0.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">

        var pictureSource;   // picture source
        var destinationType; // sets the format of returned value 

        // Wait for Cordova to connect with the device
        //
        document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);

        // Cordova is ready to be used!
        //
        function onDeviceReady() {
            pictureSource = navigator.camera.PictureSourceType;
            destinationType = navigator.camera.DestinationType;
        }

        // Called when a photo is successfully retrieved
        //
        function onPhotoDataSuccess(imageData) {
            // Uncomment to view the base64 encoded image data
            // console.log(imageData);

            // Get image handle
            //
            var smallImage = document.getElementById('smallImage');

            // Unhide image elements
            //
            smallImage.style.display = 'block';

            // Show the captured photo
            // The inline CSS rules are used to resize the image
            //
            smallImage.src = "data:image/jpeg;base64," + imageData;
        }

        // Called when a photo is successfully retrieved
        //
        function onPhotoURISuccess(imageURI) {
            // Uncomment to view the image file URI 
            // console.log(imageURI);

            // Get image handle
            //
            var largeImage = document.getElementById('largeImage');

            // Unhide image elements
            //
            largeImage.style.display = 'block';

            // Show the captured photo
            // The inline CSS rules are used to resize the image
            //
            largeImage.src = imageURI;
        }

        // A button will call this function
        //
        function capturePhoto() {
            alert('taking photo');
            // Take picture using device camera and retrieve image as base64-encoded string
            navigator.camera.getPicture(onPhotoDataSuccess, onFail, {
                quality: 50,
                destinationType: destinationType.DATA_URL
            });
        }

        // A button will call this function
        //
        function capturePhotoEdit() {
            // Take picture using device camera, allow edit, and retrieve image as base64-encoded string  
            navigator.camera.getPicture(onPhotoDataSuccess, onFail, {
                quality: 20, allowEdit: true,
                destinationType: destinationType.DATA_URL
            });
        }

        // A button will call this function
        //
        function getPhoto(source) {
            // Retrieve image file location from specified source
            navigator.camera.getPicture(onPhotoURISuccess, onFail, {
                quality: 50,
                destinationType: destinationType.FILE_URI,
                sourceType: source
            });
        }

        // Called if something bad happens.
        // 
        function onFail(message) {
            alert('Failed because: ' + message);
        }

    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <button onclick="capturePhoto();">Capture Photo</button> <br>
    <button onclick="capturePhotoEdit();">Capture Editable Photo</button> <br>
    <button onclick="getPhoto(pictureSource.PHOTOLIBRARY);">From Photo Library</button><br>
    <button onclick="getPhoto(pictureSource.SAVEDPHOTOALBUM);">From Photo Album</button><br>
    <img style="display:none;width:60px;height:60px;" id="smallImage" src="" />
    <img style="display:none;" id="largeImage" src="" />
  </body>
</html>

Part C :Run the app on connected device (Samsung Galaxy tab)

cordova run android

The app launches successfully on the tablet, BUT the buttons in index.html do not launch the camera. Why is this? I am not sure how to even debug this situation. Can you shed some light on this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8794

Answers (1)

gmh04
gmh04

Reputation: 1351

I don't know why you have src="cordova-2.2.0.js", simply change it to src=cordova.js and it should work.

For debugging have a look at adb logcat.

Upvotes: 5

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