Capacitor: [Features] Camera FILE results and options width/height

[peterpeterparker]

[X] I would to submit a feature requests

Current behavior

I gave a try to the Camera.getPhoto (https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/docs/apis/camera), really promising.

But in order to use it in my business app, I would need the features like width, height and result as FILE which I used in Cordova.

Would it be possible to include them in your roadmap?

* Features *

All these features are kind of important to me, specially because it allows me to handle a bit better the required memory (ram) of my app on mobile device (specially the FILE_URI, which is super important on all these Android devices).

• width and height: maxWidth and maxHeight of the captured images

Cordova doc:

targetWidth | number |   | Width in pixels to scale image. Must be used with targetHeight. Aspect ratio remains constant.

targetHeight | number |   | Height in pixels to scale image. Must be used with targetWidth. Aspect ratio remains constant.

• FILE result: An URI to a FILE which was created in a temp folder of the device instead of a result as base64

Cordova doc:

FILE_URI | number | 1 | Return file uri (content://media/external/images/media/2 for Android)
-- | -- | -- | --

P.S.:About FILE_URI, I think that it would be acceptable that PWA "fallback" on base64. Files on iOS and Android, base64 on PWA.

[mlynch]

Thanks for the request. Just added this feature to master and will release tomorrow. you can set width and/or height. If you set one but not the other, it does an aspect ratio scale to fit that dimension. Also, it now returns a file URI, but the Filesystem plugin needs to be updated to support those.

Cheers!

[peterpeterparker]

@mlynch awesome! I'll try to give a try in the next couple of days

[peterpeterparker]

@mlynch thx for adding width/height, so far looks good!

I didn't get what you meant with "it now returns a file URI, but the Filesystem plugin needs to be updated to support those". I tried to use CameraResultType.Uri but I also get a base64 results with this setting.

P.S.: The documentation https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/docs/apis/camera should be updated to reflect the CameraResultType change, respectively CameraResultType.Base64 instead of "base64". Should I do a PR somewhere to correct that?