Android Question WebChromeClient & HTML5 camera

[carloz]

Hello again !!

i am using the html5 camera input in a html page, requirement was to enable user to take picture and upload. Loaded it in a xcode uiwebview and it works perfectly. Taking this approach so i do not have to resubmit the apps to the stores again.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <!-- Change this if you want to allow scaling -->
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=default-width; user-scalable=no" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    <title>PGCamera</title>
</head>
<body>    
  <img style="width:60px;height:60px" id="test_img" src="" />
  <!-- for testing, add the buttons below -->
<form action="endpoint.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

  <input type="file" name="qqfile" accept="image/*" capture>

  <input type="submit" value="Upload">

</form>


  </body>
</html>

Did the same in b4a webview.. added webviewxtras.. added webchromeclient to webview..
webview loads the page , allows to select image from gallery and all other locations, but refuses to show/launch camera.
Needless to say it works perfectly well on my device browser too.

Added camera permissions to manifest too.

What am i missing here?

regards
carloz

 

[Erel]

Why aren't you using the Camera library?

 

[carloz]

Erel,

If i use the camera library on b4a then ill have to do something similar for the xcode IOS version of the app.. correct? I do not want to resubmit the app for this change, thats why am trying this.

regards
carloz

 

[Erel]

How is the B4A implementation related to your iOS app?

 

[carloz]

both android and ios apps only have a webview .. the rest of the entire content is loaded from php & jquery mobile. thus i need to keep common functionality across..

 

[jazzzzzzz]

Why cant you use cordova like environment to do these type of hybrid projects? (If you are using fullscreen webview for your app)