O shiii.. I didn't even notice that we have a "saveToPhotoAlbum" property on the camera options existing already (according to docs [1])!
SoooĊ should we file issues to implement this for all platforms / fix up the current behavior so we're following our docs? [1] http://docs.phonegap.com/en/1.7.0/cordova_camera_camera.md.html#cameraOptio ns On 5/11/12 11:11 AM, "Becky Gibson" <[email protected]> wrote: >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)? >>> >>> >>
