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Description

Phonegap plugin which allows the caller to customise a camera preview, including a custom button and overlaying a border image in each corner.

Using the plugin

  • Add the plugin ID and version to the config.xml.
<gap:plugin name="com.performanceactive.plugins.camera" />
  • Add custom images for the capture button and borders to your project. The image locations under the Phonegap www directory cannot currently be modified.
Path Description
www/img/cameraoverlay/border_top_left.png The top left border image
www/img/cameraoverlay/border_top_right.png The top right border image
www/img/cameraoverlay/border_bottom_left.png The bottom left border image
www/img/cameraoverlay/border_bottom_right.png The bottom right border image
www/img/cameraoverlay/capture_button.png The default image for the capture button
www/img/cameraoverlay/capture_button_pressed.png The image for the capture button when tapped
  • Call the plugin from JavaScript. The API is similiar to the Phonegap provided API but currently lacking some of its features.
navigator.customCamera.getPicture(filename, success, failure, [ options ]);
Parameter Description
filename The filename to use for the captured image - the file will be stored in the local application cache. Note that the plugin only returns images in the JPG format.
success A callback which will be executed on successful capture with the file URI as the first parameter.
error A callback which will be executed if the capture fails with an error message as the first parameter.
options An optional object specifying capture options.

Capture options

Option Default Value Description
quality 100 The compression level to use when saving the image - a value between 1 and 100, 100 meaning no reduction in quality.
targetWidth -1 The target width of the scaled image, -1 to disable scaling.
targetHeight -1 The target height of the scaled image, -1 to disable scaling.

Image scaling

Setting both targetWidth and targetHeight to -1 will disable image scaling. Setting both values to positive integers will scale the image to that exact size which may result in distortion. If the aspect ratio should be respected, supply only the targetWidth or targetHeight and the other will be set based on the aspect ratio.

Example

navigator.customCamera.getPicture(filename, function success(fileUri) {
    alert("File location: " + fileUri);
}, function failure(error) {
    alert(error);
}, {
    quality: 80,
    targetWidth: 120,
    targetHeight: 120
});