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camera

Camera plugin for Cordova and Ionic. Take a photo or capture video. Requires the Cordova plugin: `cordova-plugin-camera`. For more info, please see the…

latest: v9.6.0 · npm: @awesome-cordova-plugins/camera

Install

npm install @awesome-cordova-plugins/camera
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-camera

Migrating to Capacitor?

The official Capacitor equivalent of this plugin is @capacitor/camera. Capacitor plugins use modern native tooling and are the recommended path for new apps.

npm install @capacitor/camera

Camera

Take a photo or capture video.

Requires the Cordova plugin: cordova-plugin-camera. For more info, please see the Cordova Camera Plugin Docs.

[Warning] Since IOS 10 the camera requires permissions to be placed in your config.xml add

<config-file parent="NSCameraUsageDescription" platform="ios" target="*-Info.plist">
  <string>You can take photos</string>
</config-file>

inside of the <platform name='ios> section

Installation

ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-camera
npm install @awesome-cordova-plugins/camera

Plugin Repo: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera

Supported Platforms

Further Information