Native Camera for Android & iOS [Open Source]

After the latest updates, do you think it's possible to start recording automatically nowadays? The stop was simple to do, just set the time I want. But I wanted to auto start the recording.

 

Try adding

if( !imageMode ) [imagePicker startVideoCapture];

after this line and see how it goes. This isn't possible on Android.

 

Hi, thanks for replying! Too bad you can't have the automatic fire control on Android. However, I wanted to know if it is possible to have control of the time counter after I manually press the record button. In this case, I want to set and save the countdown.

 

If you're asking about retrieving the remaining value of maxDuration (e.g. 2 seconds of maximum-5-second-long recording has passed), I didn't see a function for it. On iOS, these are the only available functions provided by the operation system: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiimagepickercontroller?language=objc. On Android, you can't rely on anything at all since different stock/app store camera apps can behave differently and there isn't a unified API for them. Some camera apps don't even respect maxDuration

If instead you're talking about a 3-2-1 countdown, I haven't seen a method to get its current value or set its duration. Please see the link I've provided for all available functions.

 

Hi @yasirkula ,Is it possible to prompt only camera permission but not access to images and video in Android as I'm not storing anything in the device.Im only using camera For AR.

 

Some Android devices allegedly store the full-resolution image/video in Gallery instead of the app cache, so we need the Gallery permission to retrieve it from there.

 

I understand but is possible to only show camera access?

 

You must modify the source code in Android Studio and rebuild NativeCamera.aar for it.

 

Hi there, why is there no unity demo scene in the package? That would be great thanks.

 

I hope you find the example code useful: https://github.com/yasirkula/UnityNativeCamera

 

NO

 

Just make a demo, or is that so hard?

 

YES

 

Anyone maybe have a small example of just a simple full screen camera and have that picture saved to a unity texture. I am then going to use another asset to send this picture over wifi to a unity app running on the pc
thank you.

 

You can add this function to a script in your scene and connect it to e.g. a button's On Click event:

Code (CSharp):

1. public void TakePicture( int maxSize = 1024 )
2. {
3.     NativeCamera.TakePicture( ( path ) =>
4.     {
5.         if( path != null )
6.         {
7.             // 1) Either send the image file at path to another PC directly (image size might be a few MBs depending on camera quality)
8.            
9.             // 2) Or, create a Texture2D (scaled down if needed to satisfy maxSize pixels in each dimension) from the image file and send it to another PC
10.             Texture2D texture = NativeCamera.LoadImageAtPath( path, maxSize );
11.             if( texture == null )
12.             {
13.                 Debug.Log( "Couldn't load texture from " + path );
14.                 return;
15.             }
16.            
17.         }
18.     }, maxSize );
19. }

 

I am facing issue in android 13 .
While using camera for taking pictures it's redirect to native permission screen event is permission is granted .this happens only in Android 13.

 

Discussion continued at: https://forum.unity.com/threads/nat...d-ios-open-source.519619/page-30#post-8666577

 

is it possible to open both the front and back camera at the same time in unity?

 

@Shreenath1322 Duplicate of: https://forum.unity.com/threads/nat...d-ios-open-source.519619/page-30#post-8880828

 

Hi @yasirkula
Awesome package and easy to use.
Is it possible to turn off the switching of camera on IOS, in my use case I want only front camera ?
Is it possible to save the images and videos in "Files" folder using NativeGallery. I can save the images and videos in "Photos" but I want to save them in "Files" as well ?
Is it possible to give the desired name to a file before saving it using NativeGallery ?
Kindly please help.

 

Hi @waqarahmed1, for the first question, please see this thread. You can't save files to Files using NativeGallery but I believe you can do that with NativeFilePicker. You can specify a custom filename in NativeGallery's save function but if you'd like, you can also File.Copy the returned path to a new path with the desired name.

 

hey i get null path after taking the image

 

Can you spot useful logs, is it reproducable on an empty project, does something visibly go wrong in the camera app?

 

its a very basic URP project, just a single script with your example code a few posts above. Dont thing its a permission thing cause the camera opens but then returns empty path..

 

It unfortunately doesn't happen on my Android phone (Galaxy S8). My guess is that it happens on some specific devices and doesn't output useful logs to logcat. I don't think NativeCamera is compatible with that device for reasons I'm unaware of.

 

This is beyond disappointing :/

 

Yeah, I'm using the standard way of opening the camera. It's annoying that some devices just don't want to comply with Android's standards. They usually don't provide useful information in logcat either. They just fail to work.

 

Hello,

first thank you very much YASIRKULA for your great work !!!

I must add a Line in AndroidManifest.xml otherwise Gradle failed.

<provider
android:name="com.yasirkula.unity.NativeCameraContentProvider"
android:authorities="MysterySoft_HonigMetPictureLogger"
tools:replace="android:authorities" <-- New added Line !!!
android:exported="false"
android:grantUriPermissions="true" />

I don't understand it, does anyone know why it is ?

 

My complete AndroidManifest.xml

Code (JavaScript):

1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
2. <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" package="com.MysterySoft.HMPictureLogger" android:installLocation="preferExternal" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0">
3.     <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" android:required="true" />
4.     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
5.     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
6.     <supports-screens android:smallScreens="true" android:normalScreens="true" android:largeScreens="true" android:xlargeScreens="true" android:anyDensity="true" />
7.     <application android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" android:icon="@drawable/app_icon" android:label="@string/app_name" android:debuggable="false" android:allowBackup="false" android:fullBackupContent="false" android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true">
8.         <activity android:name="com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerActivity" android:label="@string/app_name">
9.             <intent-filter>
10.                 <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
11.                 <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
12.             </intent-filter>
13.             <meta-data android:name="unityplayer.UnityActivity" android:value="true" />
14.         </activity>
15.         <provider
16.             android:name="com.yasirkula.unity.NativeCameraContentProvider"
17.             android:authorities="MysterySoft_HonigMetPictureLogger"
18.             tools:replace="android:authorities"
19.             android:exported="false"
20.             android:grantUriPermissions="true" />
21.     </application>
22. </manifest>

 

@Kasi2302 Hi! You mustn't declare NativeCamera's provider in your own AndroidManifest. It's added by the plugin automatically. Can you try removing it from your AndroidManifest?

 

S

Sorry I don't understand

 

you mean remove this lines ?

Code (JavaScript):

1. <provider
2.             android:name="com.yasirkula.unity.NativeCameraContentProvider"
3.             android:authorities="MysterySoft_HonigMetPictureLogger"
4.             tools:replace="android:authorities"
5.             android:exported="false"
6.             android:grantUriPermissions="true" />

 

Yeah.

 

Thank you very much YASIRKULA

It works

But I don't understand it

Because so often I read add the lines to your AndroidManifest.xml

Is it because I am using a newer Unity version or the latest Android API ?

 

I've removed that requirement in a previous update. Now, you mustn't do it

 

Thank you very much YASIRKULA

 

Sorry, I have a question again.

How can I fix this Problem with NativeCamera on Xcode ?

 

@Kasi2302 You can either ignore those or change line 109 to

return 1;

and delete line 117. To persist these changes, you must make these modifications to Plugins/NativeCamera/iOS/NativeCamera.mm.

 

@yasirkula Thank you very much I read already the post on stackoverflow you implement already the issue for ios 10+ but i'm not sure what can I delete, I'm new in xcode, its so very much complicated with apples modifications alway

 

Which parts got you confused?

 

@yasirkula All parts on xcode i never programming on xcode before, i get my first apple developer account yesterday

Android is much easier like apple ...

now after i fix the last 2 errors , thank you very much again to you, i don't know how i can put my app in App store to test my app on diffrent devices

 

Happy to help! BTW those 2 aren't errors, they're warnings. So if they come up again, you don't need to do anything since they're harmless.

AFAIK, testing is possible in 3 different ways: TestFlight, installing to test devices from Xcode via USB cable, Ad Hoc distribution via 3rd party web sites.

 

@yasirkula Thank you very very much yasirkula for your great work and for your help always.

I watch a youtube tutorial already how to publish my app on app store.

But you are the best !!!

 

Thanks, you too!