Capacitor Camera Preview

Capacitor plugin that allows camera interaction from Javascript and HTML (based on cordova-plugin-camera-preview)

Releases are being kept up to date when appropriate. However, this plugin is under constant development. As such it is recommended to use master to always have the latest fixes & features.

PR's are greatly appreciated. Maintainer(s) wanted.

Installation

yarn add @capacitor-community/camera-preview

or

npm install @capacitor-community/camera-preview

Android Quirks

On Android remember to add the plugin to MainActivity

import com.ahm.capacitor.camera.preview.CameraPreview;


this.init(savedInstanceState, new ArrayList<Class<? extends Plugin>>() {{
      // Additional plugins you've installed go here
      // Ex: add(TotallyAwesomePlugin.class);
      add(CameraPreview.class);
}});

Web Quirks

Add import '@capacitor-community/camera-preview' to you entry script in ionic on app.module.ts, so capacitor can register the web platform from the plugin

Methods

start(options)

Starts the camera preview instance.

import { Plugins } from "@capacitor/core"
const { CameraPreview } = Plugins;
import { CameraPreviewOptions } from '@capacitor-community/camera-preview';

const cameraPreviewOptions: CameraPreviewOptions = {
  position: 'rear',
  height: 1920,
  width: 1080
};
CameraPreview.start(cameraPreviewOptions);

Remember to add the style below on your app's HTML or body element:

ion-content {
  --background: transparent;
}

Take into account that this will make transparent all ion-content on application, if you want to show camera preview only in one page, just add a cutom class to your ion-content and make it transparent:

.my-custom-camera-preview-content {
  --background: transparent;
}

stop()

Stops the camera preview instance.

CameraPreview.stop();

flip()

Switch between rear and front camera only for android and ios, web is not supported

CameraPreview.flip()

capture(options)

import { CameraPreviewFlashMode } from 'c@capacitor-community/camera-preview';

const cameraPreviewPictureOptions: CameraPreviewPictureOptions = {
  quality: 50
};

const result = await CameraPreview.capture(cameraPreviewPictureOptions);
const base64PictureData = result.value;

// do sometime with base64PictureData

getSupportedFlashModes()

Get the flash modes supported by the camera device currently started. Returns an array containing supported flash modes. See FLASH_MODE for possible values that can be returned

import { CameraPreviewFlashMode } from '@capacitor-community/camera-preview';

const flashModes = await CameraPreview.getSupportedFlashModes();
const supportedFlashModes: CameraPreviewFlashMode[] = flashModes.result;

setFlashMode(options)

Set the flash mode. See FLASH_MODE for details about the possible values for flashMode.

const CameraPreviewFlashMode: CameraPreviewFlashMode = 'torch';

CameraPreview.setFlashMode(cameraPreviewFlashMode);

startRecordVideo(options) ---- ANDROID only

Start capturing video

const cameraPreviewOptions: CameraPreviewOptions = {
  position: 'front',
  width: window.screen.width,
  height: window.screen.height,
};

CameraPreview.startRecordVideo(cameraPreviewOptions);

stopCaptureVideo() ---- ANDROID only

Finish capturing a video. The captured video will be returned as a file path and the video format is .mp4

const resultRecordVideo = await CameraPreview.stopRecordVideo();
this.stopCamera();

Settings

FLASH_MODE

Flash mode settings:

Demo

A working example can be found at Demo