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From: Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com>
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 11:38:03 -0700
Subject: Re: Camera API extension proposal: offer saving to photo album
Thread-Topic: Camera API extension proposal: offer saving to photo album
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O shiii.. I didn't even notice that we have a "saveToPhotoAlbum" property
on the camera options existing already (according to docs [1])!

Sooo=8A should we file issues to implement this for all platforms / fix up
the current behavior so we're following our docs?

[1]=20
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/1.7.0/cordova_camera_camera.md.html#cameraOptio
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On 5/11/12 11:11 AM, "Becky Gibson" <gibson.becky@gmail.com> wrote:

>Never fails that I think of something else as soon as I press send!
>Currently iOS does not save an image scaled via the provided options - it
>just saves the image file returned from the camera.
>
>On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Becky Gibson
><gibson.becky@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What api are we talking about - Camera or Capture. Since Capture is W3C
>>I
>> assume we are talking about Camera?
>>
>> For iOS:
>> >1. Do images already get saved in some form to the device's gallery
>> /photo album app?
>> Not by default but Camera.getPicture() for iOS already has an option and
>> code for saving still images (which is all you get in Camera api) to the
>> Photo Album.
>> >2. If not, can it be done? N/A
>> >3. Are there other methods that one can employ to mimic this
>> behavior(perhaps using File API, for example)?
>> Via existing Cordova JavaScript apis? No.
>>
>> There is a iOS bug open (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-248)
>> because the *Capture* api DOES save to the PhotoAlbum for still images
>> but not for video. Someone would like us to add saving video to the
>>photo
>> album as well.  I don't think the other platforms save to the
>>PhotoAlbum so
>> technically the fact that it does save still images is a bug in iOS but
>>I
>> didn't want to take saving out once it have been in an official release.
>>  Also, there is commented out code to save a captured video - I
>>commented
>> it out because I thought it was happening automagically but turns out
>>that
>> is not the case.
>>
>>
>> -becky
>>
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com> wrote:
>>
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-752
>>>
>>>
>>> Thoughts on extending the API so we can specify to save it to photo
>>>album?
>>>
>>> Sounds like Android already does this automatically to an extent (with
>>> some restrictions, see issue thread above for details as provided by
>>> Simon).
>>>
>>> What about other platforms? webOS / Bada / WP7 / iOS / BlackBerry
>>> webworks? Assuming this is considered a good idea, further questions
>>>to be
>>> answered:
>>>
>>> 1. Do images already get saved in some form to the device's gallery /
>>> photo album app?
>>> 2. If not, can it be done?
>>> 3. Are there other methods that one can employ to mimic this behavior
>>> (perhaps using File API, for example)?
>>>
>>>
>>