Options - Front camera about phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner

[MaicolBen]

+1

In iOS you can switch the camera side, but in Android you can't

[piotrkubisa]

It is camera and android specific quirk. Of course you can change which camera should be used via JS, and then also barcode scanner:

cameraDirection property is used to set the camera direction(front/back). You have to add it in the options like this:

navigator.camera.getPicture(onPhotoDataSuccess, onFail, { quality: 50, cameraDirection:1, destinationType:        destinationType.DATA_URL}); } 

"1" is used for front-facing camera and "2" is used for back-facing camera.
via http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17021601/phonegap-cordova-front-facing-camera-by-default-in-android

But, but...

"Any cameraDirection value results in a back-facing photo."
via http://docs.phonegap.com/en/3.1.0/cordova_camera_camera.md.html#cameraOptions_android_quirks

[bobalazek]

You are talking about the camera plugin...

The barcodescanner plugin does not accept any options / config as I'm concerned, or does it?
At least I can't find any documentation, that the .scan method would accept options.

[convey-mane]

As far as we are talking about the iOS side, take a look at #97 😉

[MaicolBen]

@convey-mane #97 adds Android front camera support? seems to me iOS improvements

[convey-mane]

@MaicolBen That's exactly why I wrote

As far as we are talking about the iOS side

The original poster didn't mention any OS, so … just to be sure 😉
But on iOS, you were right, switching cameras is already possible without my extensions – just added the right icon. Sorry for that!

[bobalazek]

Indeed, I was also more thinking about android.

Otherwise, I wasn't talking about the camera plugin, but the barcode plugin (which doesn't accept any options; so the camera options are not really helpfull).

[MaicolBen]

@convey-mane 👍

[mlemainque]

Did anybody find a way to use front camera ?

[inzi]

Is there a way to disable camera flipping in the barcode scanner plugin?

[EddyVerbruggen]

Note that in the latest ZXing library release a feature was added to specify the camera id. So once this is updated it's easy to pass it in to Android as well.

[dohoangn]

To Remove camera flipping in iOS, open CDVBarcodeScanner.mm.
Remove everything associated with flipCamera in CDVBarcodeScanner.mm

[inzi]

Thank you! I ended up commenting it out and doing pretty much just that.

I have yet to get a custom XIB to work - but for now that's working.

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