Alan Neveu created CB-2083:
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Summary: Cordova for WP7 getPicture Leaves Photos in Camera Roll
Key: CB-2083
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2083
Project: Apache Cordova
Issue Type: Bug
Components: WP7
Affects Versions: 2.2.0
Environment: Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8, when using the WP7
repo
Reporter: Alan Neveu
Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
Priority: Minor
getPicture with FileURI does not work, it crashes.
getPicture with DataURL works, but it leaves a copy of the photo on the phone's
Camera Roll. The user then gets very frustrated because they have this mess of
photos from your app cluttering up their personal photos, and then have to
delete them. If they are using SkyDrive on Windows Phone 8, they will also
have a copy of every photo automatically saved to their SkyDrive account, which
then they have to delete from there as well, cursing your app with every delete
operation. Oh, I think that in Windows Phone 7 this is not the case, but it is
the case with Windows Phone 8.
It turns out this is due to the CameraCaptureTask function, which makes it
exceedingly simple to get a photo but has this undesirable side effect. You
cannot just delete the file, though, because of a security exception.
The solution is to re-write Camera.cs so that it uses the full camera API
rather than just the CameraCaptureTask function. That's a couple days of
labor, for sure, but someone needs to do this or else the Windows Phone 8
platform will suffer from this annoying bug for all that rely on Cordova. When
asked why their app has this annoyance the reply will be "Ah, it's one of those
stupid phonegap apps..." I hate that answer. So I hope that someone who has
the time will contribute to this issue. I will give it a try in a few weeks
when I finish up the projects that I have been putting on hold while upgrading
my app to Windows Phone 8 capable, but I just can't get to it for a few weeks.
I am hoping that this summary will help someone else get a jump start on this
issue as they won't have to do so much preliminary research before starting.
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