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Foreground Camera Plugin for Phonegap (Cordova).

Originally by: - Bruno Carreira

• Lucas Farias
• Rafael Luna
• Vinicius Fonseca

The default Phonegap (Cordova) Camera Plugin calls the native camera and this makes Android Garbage Collector to kill background applications. This plugin avoid your application to go background and be killed by Garbage Collector with other applications. We used the Phonegap source code and modified it to avoid this problem. This plugin works only with File URI.

Adding the plugin to your project

1) To install the plugin, move the file camera.js to your project's www folder and include a reference to it in your html files.
2) Put the Java files in your src/ folder.
3) Change the default Camera Plugin into res/xml/config.xml file to <plugin name="Camera" value="<path to your ForegroundCameraLauncher.java>"/>.
4) Put the strings.xml in your res/values folder.
5) Put the foregroundcameraplugin.xml in your res/layout folder.
6) Put cordova-X.X.X.jar file in your /lib folder. 
7) In you AndroidManifest.xml, put this permissions:

        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

        <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" />
        <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.autofocus" />

    And declare the Camera Activity:
        <activity
            android:name=".CameraActivity"
            android:label="ForegroundCameraPlugin"
            android:screenOrientation="landscape" >
        </activity>

Using the plugin

See the index.xhtml.