Recording audio within your application
The PhoneGap API provides us with the ability to record audio directly within our application, bypassing the native audio recording application.
How to do it...
We will use the Media
object to create a reference to an audio file in which we'll record the audio data:
- Firstly, create a new PhoneGap project named
audioapi
by running this line:phonegap create audioapi com.myapp.audioapi audioapi
- Add the device's platform. You can choose to use Android, iOS, or both:
cordova platform add ios cordova platform add android
- Add the
media-capture
plugins by running this line:cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.media
- Open
www/index.html
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