How to display photo library permissions dialog in Cordova?

Question

Hi we are developing an IBM MobileFirst Platform-based Hybrid Application. In our application we are accessing user gallery (to upload photos). for this in iPhone we need to

Answer 1

You can use requestCameraRollAuthorization() in cordova-diagnostic-plugin to request native iOS permission to access the user photos:

cordova.plugins.diagnostic.requestCameraRollAuthorization(function(granted){
    console.log("Authorization request for camera roll was " + (granted ? "granted" : "denied"));
}, function(error){
    console.error(error);
});

Answer 2

MobileFirst does not handle any permissions for you - it is not that kind of a framework. This really relates to the Cordova layer in your app, which access the photo library.

You need to display a dialog box asking the user whether or not does s/he allow for the access to access the photo library. You can use WL.SimpleDialog for this purpose, for example.

Read more here:

• http://docs.phonegap.com/en/3.3.0/guide_appdev_privacy_index.md.html#Privacy%20Guide
• Cordova Camera Plugin in IOS 9
• perhaps to check if there is access given, create also a Cordova plug-in that will check for it using native code: Determine if the access to photo library is set or not - PHPhotoLibrary (iOS 8)