Take a picture?
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I'm trying to start a new mobile project. I've been a C# developer for 20 years -- Various Azure technologies, ASP / .NET Core, WPF, and even Silverlight.
I would love to use Xamarin FORMS but I can't find any information on how to take a picture with the camera on BOTH Android and iOS, except for one third party library that I'd rather not use for a variety of reasons.
Xamarin has been around for about 9 years and I can't believe that this is not part of the platform. It's mind-boggling.
Flutter has only been out for a couple of years and it can take photos CROSS PLATFORM WITH ONE CODE BASE out of the box.
I'd rather not have to learn Flutter and Dart or go with hybrid solution like Ionic / Capacitor.
Is the Xamarin team ever going to get around to adding this?????
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Any reason you don’t want to use a NuGet package like this one? https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/MediaPlugin
As I said, I'm not interested in this package for a various of reasons.
Interacting with the camera is one of the key scenarios for many or even most mobile applications. I would like a solution from Microsoft.
What can't Microsoft add this capability to Xamarin Essentials?
How come Google can do it but Microsoft can't???
I don't get it.
You didn’t say which package, I was just offering you an option.
Yeah, I worked at Microsoft in Redmond for 8 years too. (Before Xamarin).
Having a current or former Microsoft employee develop something on their own is NOT the same as having an officially supported Microsoft feature.
I don't understand why this is such a struggle.
Google did it with Flutter.
Microsoft needs to do it with Xamarin Forms too.
WTF Microsoft???
Good luck!