javascript - 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