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PhoneGap Beginners Guide (third edition)

You're reading from   PhoneGap Beginners Guide (third edition) Create, develop, debug, and deploy your very own mobile applications with PhoneGap

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784392284
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to PhoneGap FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First PhoneGap Project 3. Mobile Frameworks 4. Working with Plugins 5. Using Device Storage and the Files API 6. Using the Contacts and Camera APIs 7. Accessing the Device Sensors and Locations API 8. Advanced PhoneGap 9. Getting Ready for Release 10. A Sample PhoneGap Project A. The JavaScript Quick Cheat Sheet B. Publishing Your App C. Related Plugin Resources D. PhoneGap Tools Index

Time for action – accessing the device camera


Get ready to access the device's camera and show the user the captured picture. Refer to the following steps:

  1. Open the command-line tool and create a new PhoneGap project named camera:

    $ cordova create camera
    
  2. Change to the directory that is created:

    $ cd camera
    
  3. Using the command-line tool, add the Android and iOS platforms to the project:

    $ cordova platforms add android
    $ cordova platforms add ios
    
  4. Add the Camera API plugin using the following command line:

    $ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-camera
    
  5. Go to the www folder, open the index.html file, and replace the contents with the following code; this code is self-explanatory:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
      <head>
        <script type=”text/javascript” charset=”utf-8” src=”cordova.js”></script>
        <script type=”text/javascript” charset=”utf-8”>
    
        // Wait for device API libraries to load
        document.addEventListener(“deviceready”, onDeviceReady,false);
    
        // device...
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