This is possible on Windows Phone, however it is not implemented. There is also a choice of whether the the image is added to the gallery 'Camera Roll' or 'Saved Pictures'
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Filip Maj <[email protected]> wrote: > 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)? > >>> > >>> > >> > > -- @purplecabbage risingj.com
