Ionic/Cordova: How to integrate Cordova Plugins into existing Ionic project?

Question

I have an Ionic project where I need the Cordova Camera plugin (which I now installed successfully). But in my project the Camera API is still not available, i.e. I get error th

Answer 1

Follow these steps:

1. Include ngCordova before cordova.js

You can found the same description in the docs.

2. Add your plugin on the command line

You can find this step in the docs in the section of your specific plugin.

ionic plugin add org.apache.cordova.camera

3. Remember that cordova is not available while working in the browser

So when using the $cordovaCamera.getPicture the library is calling internally navigator.camera.getPicture which is not available when developing in the desktop browser. Further reading

The ngCordova / Ionic team is currently working on mocks you can use to avoid problems like that.

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You can download ngCordova here: http://ngcordova.com/docs/install/

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Update: There is Ionic Native now, it's like ngCordova but for ES6 and TypeScript.