869887 - Camera app supporting 'pick' activity for videos

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Camera, defect)

Description

[ejge]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/536.29.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.4 Safari/536.29.13

Steps to reproduce:

-I created a web app that used the 'pick' activity, with the following data types:
["image/jpeg", "image/jpg", "video/webm", "video/mp4", "video/3gpp"]
-I launched the activity


Actual results:

Several listeners registered for that activity were spawned, including the gallery, the videos app, and the camera. However, the camera only allows for taking pictures, and NOT recording videos.


Expected results:

The camera app should allow the user to record a video, then return the video as a result of the activity. Just the same as it does for pictures.

Comment 1

[Nicolas Bourdais]

According to Web_Activities API, you have to use 'record' activity to record a video from Camera:
https://developer.mozilla.org/ja/docs/WebAPI/Web_Activities#Firefox_OS_activities

Comment 2

[Diego Marcos [:dmarcos]]

Is this still an issue?

Comment 3

[Wilson Page [:wilsonpage]]

Have a look at how the Gaia 'sms' app uses the camera. I'm pretty sure it can successfully 'pick' a video from the camera app. 

The 'record' activity is not the activity you want as it will only open the camera app in the specified mode, it won't return you an image or video.