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Open Camera or Gallery from " inappbrowser " in Apache Cordova

I have a hybrid application developed using Apache Cordova, within that application I am using " inappbrowser ". Now the requirement is to open Camera or Gallery from the inappbrowser, I am not able to figure out how to achieve this.

For developing this application I am using backbone.js, JQuery, bootstrap.js.

Here is the code snippet of Backbone's View :

  var mainScreenView = Backbone.View.extend({

        el: $('.panel'),

        templateMainScreen: _.template($('#templateOne').html()),

        events: {

            "click #inputBtnSubmit": "openWebView",
            "click #clickSettings": "openSettings"
        },

        initialize: function(){
            this.render();
        },

        render: function () {

            alert($(this.el).find('.panel-body'));
            var bindElement = $(this.el).find('.panel-body');
            bindElement.html(this.templateMainScreen());
            return this;
        },

        openWebView: function () {

            var textValue = $('#inputValue').val();
                       cordova.InAppBrowser.open('**Link to an external webpage which asks for Camera or Gallery control** ', '_blank', 'location=no');

       //  After inappbrowser is called to load a external webpage (On a button click Camera Intent or Gallery should open)
        }

    });

    var appView = new mainScreenView;

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • Instead of using inappBrowser, i ended up in implementing HTML iframe. That is, What things I wanted inappBrowser to do, now I am able to do using iframe. You can have access to Camera or Gallery or File Explorer, similar to that of a Native Phone's Browser.

    Here is what I have done to solve the above problem:

       <html>
   <head>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
      <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" />
      <meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width, height=device-height, target-densitydpi=device-dpi" />
      <title>Hello World!</title>
      <style type='text/css'>
        body, html, iframe {
                     margin: 0;
                     padding: 0;
                     border: 0px none;
                     width: 100%;
                     height: 100%;
        }
      </style>
 </head>
 <body>
     <script type="text/javascript" src="cordova.js"></script>


     <iframe src="http://SomeWebPage" width="97%" height="97%"></iframe>
 </body>

    Hope this helps others.