@jonz94/capacitor-image-picker

Image Picker

@jonz94/capacitor-image-picker

Capacitor plugin for multiple image selection.

Install

npm install @jonz94/capacitor-image-picker
npx cap sync

iOS

Native Dependencies Setup

This plugin uses a forked version of YPImagePicker under the hood.

In order to use this plugin, you need to manually modified ios/App/Podfile as following:

target 'App' do
  capacitor_pods
  # Add your Pods here
+  pod 'YPImagePicker', :git => 'https://github.com/jonz94/YPImagePicker.git', :tag => '5.2.2.0'
end

After modified ios/App/Podfile, make sure to run pod update command to sync up the iOS project.

Permissions

iOS requires the following usage description be added and filled out for your app in Info.plist:

• NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription (Privacy - Photo Library Usage Description)

Read about Configuring Info.plist in the iOS Guide for more information on setting iOS permissions in Xcode.

Android

Native Dependencies Setup

This plugin uses a forked version of TedImagePicker under the hood.

Setup JitPack Repository

Add following line to your android/build.gradle:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
+        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
    }
}

Enable Data Binding

Add following lines to your android/app/build.gradle:

android {
    compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion
    defaultConfig {
        // ...
    }
    buildTypes {
        // ...
    }
+    dataBinding {
+        enabled true
+    }
}

Sync Project

After modified android/build.gradle and android/app/build.gradle, make sure to run Sync Project with Gradle Files in Android Studio.

Permissions

This plugin requires the following permissions be added to your AndroidManifest.xml:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" android:maxSdkVersion="32" />

The storage permissions are for reading photo files.

Read about Setting Permissions in the Android Guide for more information on setting Android permissions.

Configuration

No configuration required for this plugin.

Usage

import { ImagePicker } from '@jonz94/capacitor-image-picker';

const pickSingleImage = async () => {
  const { images } = await ImagePicker.present();

  // console.log(images[0]);

  return images[0];
}

const pickMultipleImages = async () => {
  const { images } = await ImagePicker.present({ limit: 10 });

  // console.log(images);

  return images;
}

const pickMultipleImagesWithCustomText = async () => {
  const { images } = await ImagePicker.present({
    limit: 10,
    surpassLimitMessage: 'You cannot select more than %d images.',
    titleText: 'Pick a image',
    albumsTitleText: 'Chose an album',
    libraryTitleText: 'Click here to change library',
    cancelText: 'Go Back',
    doneText: 'OK',
  });

  // console.log(images);

  return images;
}

API

• present(...)
• Interfaces

present(...)

present(options?: PresentOptions | undefined) => Promise<Images>

Param	Type
options	PresentOptions

Returns: Promise<Images>

---

Interfaces

Images

Prop	Type	Description	Since
images	Image[]	Array of all the picked images.	1.0.0

Image

Prop	Type	Description	Since
path	string	The file path of the image.	1.0.0
webPath	string	webPath returns a path that can be used to set the src attribute of an image for efficient loading and rendering.	1.0.0
mimeType	string	The mime type of the image.	1.0.0

PresentOptions

Prop	Type	Description	Default	Since
limit	number	Maximum number of images the user will be able to choose. Note: If this is set to 1, upon selection of a single image.	1	1.0.0
surpassLimitMessage	string	The message when user select more than maximum number of pictures. This message will not occur when limit is 1. Note: The message MUST INCLUDE ONE AND ONLY ONE %d as a placeholder for showing the value of limit.	"You can only select %d images."	1.0.0
titleText	string	Android only: The title of the image picker.	"Select Image"	1.0.0
albumAllText	string	Android only: name of the all photos album.	"All"	1.2.0
libraryTitleText	string	iOS only: The title of the library.	"Library"	1.0.0
albumsTitleText	string	iOS only: The title of the albums.	"Albums"	1.0.0
cancelText	string	iOS only: The text to display on the cancel button. Note: on Android, the cancel button is shown as icon-only back button with no text.	"Cancel"	1.0.0
doneText	string	The text to display on the done button.	"Done"	1.0.0

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

License

See LICENSE.

Credits

• EinfachHans's Advanced ImagePicker Cordova Plugin inspires this Capacitor plugin.
• YPImagePicker provides iOS implementation.
• TedImagePicker provides Android implementation.
• Official Capacitor Camera Plugin provides saveTemporaryImage() implementation on iOS.
• Capawesome's Capacitor File Picker Plugin provides getMimeTypeFromURL() implementation on iOS.