Supported platform:
- iOS
- Android
CameraPlus has the following features
- Retrieve live images from Camera in the background
- Retrieve the images in HTML/JS in Base64 so that they can be displayed, saved in localstorage and sent using HTTP POST
- Set the target format (iOS only)
- Automatically stops capturing if no request made for 5 seconds, wake up camera when image requested
Add the plugin to your cordova project:
cordova plugin add https://github.com/moonware/cordova-cameraplus.git
startCamera( options, success_callback, error_callback );
stopCamera( success_callback, error_callback );
getVideoFormats( success_callback, error_callback );
setVideoFormat( success_callback, error_callback );
getJpegImage( success_callback, error_callback );getJpegImage will return a JPEG image encoded in base 64.
You can then set it to an image from HTML/JS part of the application:
Standard JS:
camImage.src = "data:image/jpeg;base64," + data;
or
AngularJS/Ionic:
<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64, {{data}}">
A ready to try Ionic application is available here: https://github.com/Moonware/cordova-cameraplus-testapp
On iOS there are known memory leaks issues related to UIWebView, the application will most likely crash after a few minutes of intensive usage (pulling images at 15-20fps). The Android version doesn't seem to suffer from similar problems.
If you think that you can help on resolving this problem, feel free to participate in one of these topic:
http://forum.ionicframework.com/t/camera-plus-cordova-plugin-ios-help-needed/18375
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28771897/cordova-custom-camera-plugin-ios-memory-leak