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Is it possible to take a picture from a smart phone in the browser and save to database?

I have an application that saves a user's webcam image using a pc/mac browser.

Is there a way to do the same thing using smart phone cameras within the browser?

I'm not really sure where I would begin. A google search didn't give me many leads.

All the best,

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You should be able to do this on the iPhone using UIImageJPEGRepresentation.

This questions describes how to do the same thing on Android.

These are examples for two platforms. Are there any other platforms you are looking to develop your application for?

Oren  2010-04-27 22:36:10
Symbian perhaps - the assertion that "those are to two most common platforms" is a little flawed (see the Wikipedia article for Smartphone for a graph of relative market share). iPhone OS is only the third most common smartphone platform, and Android a distant fifth!
Mac  2010-04-27 23:11:06
@Mac, corrected.
Oren  2010-04-27 23:16:00
Although, they are probably the two largest platforms as far as app downloads. This article suggests that "Apple responsible for 99.4% of mobile app sales in 2009": http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars
Oren  2010-04-27 23:20:41
A: 

I'm not trying to create an application - I'm trying to take a picture snapshot from the user's camera using the browser - i.e. online software.

Robert M. Cavezza  2010-05-11 03:25:36

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