What's the alternative to Camera?
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote: > +1 geo and websql deprecation > > I would wait on camera until we actually do the api audit > > On 3/22/13 2:54 PM, "Joe Bowser" <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Hey > > > >I'm currently looking through the plugins, and I'm thinking more and > >more that Android has at least two plugins that I would like to see no > >longer maintained once we break them off of the main repository. > > > >Geolocation: > >------------------- > >Our Geolocation doesn't actually give us anything that the browser > >doesn't do. I think that GPS could be done better, and that the spec > >sucks. However our core plugins are supposed to follow the spec, and > >since the browser on Android does this much better, there's no point > >for this plugin to exist. > > > >WebSQL Storage: > >---------------------------- > >Our WebSQL storage is pretty brittle and is just a shim to the raw > >SQLite that Android creates. There's no real exception handling, and > >this could easily crash. I would like to deprecate this and point > >people to a third party plugin if they need their SQLite done. > > > >Camera > >-------------- > >Also, we need to figure out how we capture things. It'd be good if we > >picked one way to do this over the other. Right now mobile-spec seems > >to use the Camera API, which I don't think is correct. We need to > >write a new test for this, because right now this isn't well tested. > >I'd like to send the old Camera API on the ice flow in favour of > >capture and the native URI handling. > > > >Thoughts on this? > > > >Joe > >
