How can I access iPhone or Android camera using HTML5?

Question

I am trying to create a web application to be built on HTML5 for iPhone or Android browser. How will I be able to access the camera on both instance for me to capture an image and upload it to the web application?

Answer 1

I don't think this is possible. At least, in the current state, HTML5 cannot access the camera (or other peripherals). An alternative would be to create a PhoneGap application, where you can develop the app in HTML5 (which will be wrapped into a native application), with additional libraries (JS) which let you access these.

More info on PhoneGap: http://phonegap.com/start Camera api on PhoneGap: http://docs.phonegap.com/en/1.0.0/phonegap_camera_camera.md.html