Question about PhoneGap

[Preston Crawford]

Figured I'd ask here first instead of the source, because someone here might have used this recently. I downloaded PhoneGap to give it a try and the git directory is empty. There is nothing in the iPhone, Android, etc. directories.

Also, I wanted to ask a high level question. Does PhoneGap give you access to the Camera API of some phones? i.e. The ability to use the camera as a source of an image to work with. I never got a clear answer from the website. 

I have a project I want to do for Android, but I'm playing around with just how much I can do without using the Android SDK.

Preston

[Jason Grigsby]

http://docs.phonegap.com/docs/camera

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[Preston Crawford]

Thanks. The big picture question I was referring to, though, was whether this works across both Android and iPhone. I was looking at the wiki and it seemed to indicate that it only worked for iPhone. I'll try it out once I can get an actual download of phonegap and not an empty git repository.

Preston

[Jason Grigsby]

Sorry. I missed that. :-)

I'm not sure on Android camera. @brianleroux has a Google Spreadsheet that shows compatibility across devices. I have to run to a meeting, but if you can't track down the info, let me know and I'll see what I can find out later in the day.

-Jason

[Jeremy Logan]

I have no experience with phonegap, but I'd guess that the iphone and android tags at the top-right indicate the platforms the function is supported on?

http://imgur.com/EOApY.png

[Steven Osborn]

It's been a while since I played with PG, but I'm pretty sure the
empty directories are a feature of Git. It's like SVN externals, but
you have to bootstrap them yourself to pull down the content. I'm
pretty sure the README has some info.

Again it's been a long time since I tried to play with it and didn't
get extremely far with it before.

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[Preston Crawford]

Nevermind. I'd followed their instructions earlier and it hadn't worked. I just tried it again and it did. Go figure.

Thanks. I'll play around with Android camera stuff later.

Preston

[Preston Crawford]

I am a bit surprised that it appears you still need the JDK. For some reason I thought there was a way to setup a mobile.mydomain.com that could still touch the API of the camera. Not sure why I thought that as it breaks the whole same origin site principle, but I thought I'd heard that at some point. Oh well.

Preston