Invoking an external camera application as opposed to the native camera app.

[Karthik]

Hello,
I was wondering if it would be possible to invoke an external camera application from an app I made in appery.io. I know it is possible invoke the native camera application however, I want to know if it is possible to create an app that makes it so that I can use the camera from an application called "NightCap Pro" on the Apple app store.
Thanks,
Karthik

[Pavel Zarudniy]

Hi Karthik,
You can add phonegap plugin to call this app, for example - https://github.com/dmedvinsky/cordova...
How to add 3rd party plugins - https://devcenter.appery.io/documenta...

[Karthik]

Thanks a lot for the help. I am fairly new to this so I was wondering how I would add an application from the iOS app store after adding the phone gap plugin. I see there is a tutorial on adding third party applications but it docent talk about adding apps from App store or Google Play Store.

[Karthik]

Also to add the phone gap plugin would I have to copy and paste the code in the StartApp.m and StartApp.h files or can I directly upload them to my plugins directory

[Illya Stepanov]

Hi Karthik,

You can't add apps from App Store or Google Play Store they are separate binary packages.

In some plugins you can upload .m and .h files, in some cases upload and make edit inside the code. Note that currently, Appery.io doesn’t allow you to upload files with a plus sign in file name, so you need to edit files and code inside them.

All information you can find here: https://devcenter.appery.io/documenta...

[Karthik]

Hi Illya,
Thanks for the reply,
I was trying to use a camera application from the app store that had more features than the native camera application on the iPhone. Thanks for clearing it up as I thought that I could use apps from the app store in appery.io