Phonegap - Choose Image From Gallery

Question

Can anyone tell me, or point me in the direction of how to get an image from the phone's image gallery in Phonegap / Android? There's docs on accessing the camera (which works great) but not selecting an existing image.

I'm looking for Phonegap / Javascript rather than Java.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Erm, the Camera docs cover this. Is this not working for you? Check out Camera.PictureSourceType for details. The docs site givens this example for deriving an image thus:

function getPhoto(source) {
  // Retrieve image file location from specified source
  navigator.camera.getPicture(onPhotoURISuccess, onFail, { quality: 50,
    destinationType: destinationType.FILE_URI,
    sourceType: source });
}

sourceType is the crucial bit here. It can be Camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA (the default), or more useful for you it can be Camera.PictureSourceType.PHOTOLIBRARY or Camera.PictureSourceType.SAVEDPHOTOALBUM.

Camera Documentation

Answer 2

You can also use following library: https://github.com/wymsee/cordova-imagePicker I prefer this one as it's smaller, easy to implement and does not require permission to camera.

Answer 3

Take a look at this post, it may help you.

Sometimes, you may face some problem with uploading an existing image. The solution is simple, per this answer. Briefly, you need to convert the native Android URI to one that the API can use:

// URL you are trying to upload from inside gallery
window.resolveLocalFileSystemURI(img.URI, function(entry) {
  console.log(entry.fullPath);
  }, function(evt){
    console.log(evt.code);
  }
);

Answer 4

document.addEventListener("deviceready",function(){

            window.requestFileSystem(LocalFileSystem.PERSISTENT, 0, function(fileSystem){ 
                var sdcard = fileSystem.root;

                sdcard.getDirectory('dcim/camera',{create:false}, function(dcim){
                    var directoryReader = dcim.createReader();
                    directoryReader.readEntries(function(entries){
                       for (var i=0; i<entries.length; i++) {
                           entries[i].file(function(f){
                                 var reader = new FileReader();
                                 reader.onloadend = function (evt) {
                                 var url= evt.target.result;//base64 data uri

                                 console.log(url)
                                 reader.abort();
                             };
                             reader.readAsDataURL(f);

                           },function(error){
                               console("Unable to retrieve file properties: " + error.code);

                           });

                       }

                    },function(e){
                        console.log(e.code);
                    });


                }, function(error){
                    console.log(error.code);
                });


            }, function(evt){ // error get file system
                 console.log(evt.target.error.code);
            });



        } , true);