Never fails that I think of something else as soon as I press send! Currently iOS does not save an image scaled via the provided options - it just saves the image file returned from the camera.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Becky Gibson <[email protected]>wrote: > What api are we talking about - Camera or Capture. Since Capture is W3C I > assume we are talking about Camera? > > For iOS: > >1. Do images already get saved in some form to the device's gallery > /photo album app? > Not by default but Camera.getPicture() for iOS already has an option and > code for saving still images (which is all you get in Camera api) to the > Photo Album. > >2. If not, can it be done? N/A > >3. Are there other methods that one can employ to mimic this > behavior(perhaps using File API, for example)? > Via existing Cordova JavaScript apis? No. > > There is a iOS bug open (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-248) > because the *Capture* api DOES save to the PhotoAlbum for still images > but not for video. Someone would like us to add saving video to the photo > album as well. I don't think the other platforms save to the PhotoAlbum so > technically the fact that it does save still images is a bug in iOS but I > didn't want to take saving out once it have been in an official release. > Also, there is commented out code to save a captured video - I commented > it out because I thought it was happening automagically but turns out that > is not the case. > > > -becky > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Filip Maj <[email protected]> wrote: > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-752 >> >> >> Thoughts on extending the API so we can specify to save it to photo album? >> >> Sounds like Android already does this automatically to an extent (with >> some restrictions, see issue thread above for details as provided by >> Simon). >> >> What about other platforms? webOS / Bada / WP7 / iOS / BlackBerry >> webworks? Assuming this is considered a good idea, further questions to be >> answered: >> >> 1. Do images already get saved in some form to the device's gallery / >> photo album app? >> 2. If not, can it be done? >> 3. Are there other methods that one can employ to mimic this behavior >> (perhaps using File API, for example)? >> >> >
