How to access the camera from within a Webview?

Question

In my android app, I am trying to load a webpage (that must access the camera) on WebView. On my laptop, when I load the webpage, I could access the camera.

Everything else on the html page is shown.

Here are the permission I am putting in the Manifest.xml

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.webkit.PermissionRequest" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /> 

I am setting the SDK as follow:

<uses-sdk     android:minSdkVersion="18"     android:targetSdkVersion="21" /> 

Here is my webview setting:

private void setMyWebviewSettings(WebSettings MyWebviewSettings) {     MyWebviewSettings.setAllowFileAccessFromFileURLs(true);     MyWebviewSettings.setAllowUniversalAccessFromFileURLs(true);     MyWebviewSettings.setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);     MyWebviewSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);     MyWebviewSettings.setDomStorageEnabled(true);     MyWebviewSettings.setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);     MyWebviewSettings.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);     MyWebviewSettings.setAllowFileAccess(true);     MyWebviewSettings.setSupportZoom(true); } 

If I could access the camera from my app directly (using a normal activity), why can't I open it from within the WebView?!

Answer 1

I was trying same thing. Below code worked to me.

First in manifest file we have to add camera hardware permission true using uses permission tag.

Then need to accept camera permission to use using below lines in your activity.

webview.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {     @Override    public void onPermissionRequest(final PermissionRequest request) {       if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {          request.grant(request.getResources());       }    }   });