ngCordova Camera Error - HEPL!

ionic-v1
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i dont know what to do anymore… i’ve tried everything and i have no idea what i’m doing wrong.
im using ionic-yeoman framework and im trying to use ng-cordova plugins to get access to the camera.
at this point i just want to open the camera. i have no idea what to do next since the code doesn’t seems to do anything.
please help me!!! its been over a week and i can’t find a solution!@#$%^&*.

this is my controler

.controller(‘profileCtrl’, function($scope, myService, $cordovaCamera) {

var Camera = navigator.camera;

  $scope.takePicture = function() {
	$cordovaCamera.getPicture(onSuccess, onFail, { quality: 50, destinationType: $cordovaCamera.FILE_URI }); 

	function onSuccess(imageURI) {
		console.log('asdasd');
	}

	function onFail(message) {
		console.log('asdasd');
	}
	
	console.log('asdasd');
  
  
myService.getFoo().then(function(data) {
   //this will execute when the 
   //AJAX call completes.
   $scope.items = data;
});

})

2

I haven’t tried ionic-yeoman.

But $cordovaCamera takes the "options" as the argument and then it returns the promise to handle success and failure cases. Have you tried that?

3

did you review the documentation? There is an example there, and what you have above does not reflect how the camera is documented in ngCordova

http://ngcordova.com/docs/

$cordovaCamera.getPicture(options).then(function(imageData) {
  // Success! Image data is here
}, function(err) {
  // An error occured. Show a message to the user
});
4

Hey @Matangub i think @aaronksaunders is right.

It seems that you mixed up cordovaCamera with original phonegap camera plugin syntax.
Ionic uses promises to handle asynchronous calls.

Greetz, bengtler

5

i copied the code from the ngCordova example. but it gives me the next error:
ReferenceError: Camera is not defined

got any idea how to fix this? i also saw you replied to my stackoverflow post. mind if i’ll add you to skype so we can help each other? realy need someone that will help me…

6

Sure you are testing your code on a mobile device?

If you try to test this on non-mobile browser there will be no Camery object on the window object.

Greetz, bengtler

7

AHHH !@#!@#!@#!@#
ITS FINALLY WORKING.
CAN’T BELIVE THAT WAS THE ERORR T_T I WANNA SHOORT MYSELF I THE HEAD…

there is no words how grateful i am… THANK YOU MAN!

for any future developers who will get this error:ReferenceError: Camera is not defined - you need to build and run on device.

8

For this purposes you can check if “window.cordova” is there.
If not your are not on a real mobile device :wink:

9

Hello,

something more (since I wasted time, this could help someone else). You have to wait for the deviceready event before using the plugins, and that is not automatically done. See this topic :

I used the solution given by Natsu- and it actually works like a charm.

Good luck !

11

is anyone else gettign the same error where it returns the same broken data URI with every picture