Kindle fire webview camera file upload problem

sluggo · 03-03-2016, 12:25 PM

We have a working hybrid android app that has a very specific problem ONLY on our test Kindle Fire OS device running Lollipop 5.1.1 (API 22).

In our webview we have a file upload button that shows Camera/Photo Gallery etc... on every device we've tried but on this Kindle it only shows Photo and Documents. No camera. The camera works just fine outside of the app and if you access the page via the Kindle web browser and not from the webview the camera comes up as expected. The camera permissions are set in the Manifest:

Code:

   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
 <uses-feature
        android:name="android.hardware.camera"
        android:required="true" />

And I can see in the app permissions that camera is allowed.

I do not think its the android code that is the problem since its working everywhere else and I've tried multiple versions of the code with the same result.

Here is our html code to prompt for the camera:

Code:

<input type="file" accept="image/*" name="file_upload[]" />

Has anyone run into this problem before?? Again our code works on dozens of Android devices but does not prompt for the Camera on Kindle Fire.

Thanks!

Jeff

knc1 · 03-03-2016, 01:29 PM

Wrong forum.
We don't do color (or android) here, only grayscale.

03-03-2016, 12:25 PM	#1
sluggo Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2016 Device: none	Kindle fire webview camera file upload problem We have a working hybrid android app that has a very specific problem ONLY on our test Kindle Fire OS device running Lollipop 5.1.1 (API 22). In our webview we have a file upload button that shows Camera/Photo Gallery etc... on every device we've tried but on this Kindle it only shows Photo and Documents. No camera. The camera works just fine outside of the app and if you access the page via the Kindle web browser and not from the webview the camera comes up as expected. The camera permissions are set in the Manifest: Code: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" /> <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" android:required="true" /> And I can see in the app permissions that camera is allowed. I do not think its the android code that is the problem since its working everywhere else and I've tried multiple versions of the code with the same result. Here is our html code to prompt for the camera: Code: <input type="file" accept="image/" name="file_upload[]" /> Has anyone run into this problem before?? Again our code works on dozens of Android devices but does not prompt for the Camera on Kindle Fire. Thanks! Jeff Last edited by sluggo; 03-03-2016 at 01:14 PM. Reason: typo in code bit*

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03-03-2016, 01:29 PM	#2
knc1 Going Viral Posts: 17,212 Karma: 18210809 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Central Texas Device: No K1, PW2, KV, KOA	Wrong forum. We don't do color (or android) here, only grayscale.

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