Accessing the camera using the Camera API

The Camera API provides access to the device's camera application using the Camera plugin identified by the cordova-plugin-camera key. With this plugin installed, an app can take a picture or gain access to a media file stored in the photo library and albums that the user created on the device. The Camera API exposes the following two methods defined in the navigator.camera object:

• getPicture: This opens the default camera application or allows the user to browse the media library, depending on the options specified in the configuration object that the method accepts as an argument

• cleanup: This cleans up any intermediate photo file available in the temporary storage location (supported only on iOS)

As arguments, the getPicture method accepts a success handler, failure handler, and optionally an object used to specify several camera options through its properties as follows:

• quality: This is a number between 0 and 100 used to specify the quality of...