Add android.permission.CAMERA with Cordova

Question

I am using the latest version of Cordova (6.3.1) and I want the following permission to appear in the AndroidManifest.xml :

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

Adding this line by hand does not work because the XML is regenerated each time I run the command cordova run android

I have added the cordova-plugin-camera to my project with

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-camera

This plugin does NOT add the CAMERA permission in the AndroidManifest.xml

I don't know if this is normal

How can I add this permission to my project ?

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Edit : Usually, Cordova plugins are in charge of adding required permissions into the manifest. The camera plugin does not add this specific permission, I wonder :

• if the plugin should add this permission (bug ? I have opened an issue on their Jira tracker)
• if I can add this permission by hand myself, maybe in the Cordova's config.xml

Personal

do you any error in console ? – Krystalkrystalle

No error in console. The permission is just not present in the manifest. – Personal

Please remove and reinstall your camera plugin.Then check your manifist file .Thanks – Krystalkrystalle

@HassanALi I just tried that and the CAMERA permission did not appear in the manifest :( – Personal

if you manually add this permission ,Isn't it works ? – Krystalkrystalle

Just tell me how to add it. As I say in my question, if I add the permission directly in the manifest, it goes away when I build my app, because the build command overwrites the manifest file. – Personal

Answer 1

I don't think the Camera plugin ever added this permission to AndroidManifest.xml. Looking through the Github repo, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE was added in June 2013 (CB-3654), but I don't see anything for the camera itself. Not sure why that would be, but you can either add the permission to AndroidManifest.xml yourself or add a config-file directive in your project's config.xml file, for example:

    <config-file target="AndroidManifest.xml" parent="/*" mode="merge">
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
        <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" />
        <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.autofocus" />
    </config-file>

Galliwasp

I had to add xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" to the root widget tag in the config.xml to get it work. – Algerian

Answer 2

Regarding this challenge. I also faced the same problem recently. Thanks Johann for your innovative suggestion of adding the xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" to the root widget tag in the config.xml

Then also, reading the docs on the android developer website, it is obvious that the
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" /> doesn't work on recent versions of andriod API levels less than API 21. So, to make this work on newer version of Android, you have to use <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera2" /> which is a reference to the deprecated camera class.

you can add this lines to your AndroidMainfest.xlm file or update your config file directive to use this.

 <widget xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
 <config-file target="AndroidManifest.xml" parent="/*" mode="merge">
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
    <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera2" />
    <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.autofocus" />
</config-file>

Kesley

Answer 3

Are you building native or hybrid app?

For native you can refer this website:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.html

Spectrophotometer

Cordova is a tool to build hybrid app, I am using Cordova CLI to build my app – Personal

FYI: it is framework and if you need to change permission for android you can do that in config file. – Spectrophotometer