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Ionic Cookbook

You're reading from   Ionic Cookbook Recipes to create cutting-edge, real-time hybrid mobile apps with Ionic

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788623230
Length 390 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Indermohan Singh Indermohan Singh
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Our First App with Ionic FREE CHAPTER 2. Adding Ionic Components 3. Extending Ionic with Angular Building Blocks 4. Validating Forms and Making HTTP Requests 5. Adding Animation 6. User Authentication and Push Notifications 7. Supporting Device Functionalities Using Ionic Native 8. Theming the App 9. Advanced Topics 10. Publishing the App for Different Platforms 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Taking a photo using the camera plugin

In this section, you will make an app to take a picture using the device camera or load an existing picture from the device album. The picture could be either in the Base64 format or saved in a local filesystem relating to your app. The following is a screenshot of the app:

Here is the high-level process:

  1. Access the Cordova camera plugin to trigger camera capture and get the image back in the Base64 or URI format
  2. Parse the Base64 data or URI on an <img> DOM object
  3. Display the URI if it's in the URI format
  4. Capture an event of a toggle component
  5. Display long data (for example, URI) using a horizontal scroll

Getting ready

You should have a physical device ready in order to...

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