[tw5] Take smartphone picture directly into TiddlyWiki

[Jeremy Ruston]

This is partly in response to the following comment from Atul over in the Notestorms thread:

> Now, is it possible to have the image-note-card open the phone's camera, allow the user to take a photo,save it, and insert the image link or filepath between the double quotes and save the tiddler. 

> This could be widely used for live & self learning (the direction in which the modern pedagogy is moving). 

> I think there are html5 tags that can call the android APIs etc.

I'm making some changes for 5.0.17 that will allow directly taking a photo on the iPad/iPhone by clicking the import button and selecting "Take Photo" in the dialogue shown in the screenshot attached.

I'm pretty sure the same API works on Android devices,

Best wishes

Jeremy.

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[HC Haase]

Just found this post..
This is great. However on my android, I get the dialogue take a pic and approve, but when it loads the TW again nothing happens/is added

[Sylvain Naudin]

Le vendredi 26 février 2016 13:10:31 UTC+1, HC Haase a écrit :

Just found this post..
This is great. However on my android, I get the dialogue take a pic and approve, but when it loads the TW again nothing happens/is added

Thank you for discovering this old post !

Just tested with Firefox for Android (6), it work well for me, it add a new tiddler 2016-02-29 09.35.19.jpg

Sylvain

[HC Haase]

Nice to hear that it works for some one.
but strangely, no success on my android 5 phone :(

I get a white screen for around 5 sec before it loads TW in FF mobile again, but no post.

[Mark S.]

On my android tablet clicking on the import button leads to the "Choose file" menu. I can select the camera, but in the camera screen the camera button is greyed out so I can't actually take the photo. Oddly, the Movie button is not greyed out