@capacitor-community/camera-preview

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.

Option	values	descriptions
position	front | rear	Show front or rear camera when start the preview. Defaults to front
width	number	(optional) The preview width in pixels, default window.screen.width (applicable to the android and ios platforms only)
height	number	(optional) The preview height in pixels, default window.screen.height (applicable to the android and ios platforms only)
x	number	(optional) The x origin, default 0 (applicable to the android and ios platforms only)
y	number	(optional) The y origin, default 0 (applicable to the android and ios platforms only)
toBack	boolean	(optional) Brings your html in front of your preview, default false (applicable to the android and ios platforms only)
paddingBottom	number	(optional) The preview bottom padding in pixes. Useful to keep the appropriate preview sizes when orientation changes (applicable to the android and ios platforms only)
rotateWhenOrientationChanged	boolean	(optional) Rotate preview when orientation changes (applicable to the ios platforms only; default value is true)

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)

Option	values	descriptions
quality	number	(optional) The picture quality, 0 - 100, default 85
width	number	(optional) The picture width, default 0 (Device default)
height	number	(optional) The picture height, default 0 (Device default)

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:

Name	Type	Default	Note
OFF	string	off
ON	string	on
AUTO	string	auto
RED_EYE	string	red-eye	Android Only
TORCH	string	torch

Demo

A working demo for iOS can be found at Demo