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Varun
Varun

Reputation: 5061

Access mobile camera from HTML/Angular application

I am looking to access mobile back camera from an application I am building on html5/angular. I used <input type="file" accept="image/*" capture="camera" /> but it always opens the front camera rather then back camera, is there any way to open back camera always?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 46637

Answers (2)

yglodt
yglodt

Reputation: 14551

There is also ngx-webcam with nice features:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/ngx-webcam

Upvotes: 3

nipuna-g
nipuna-g

Reputation: 6652

You should be able to select between the front and rear camera using the capture attribute.

For the rear camera: 

<input type="file" accept="image/*" capture="environment">

For the front camera, you should be able to use: capture="user" or just capture.

You can read a bit more about it here if you'd like: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/media/capturing-images/

Upvotes: 30

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