If your Meteor Cordova app needs access to the device camera you’ll likely want to also allow the user to access their photo library. It’s simple when you use the

mdg:camera package.

When you use the package you pass in a few options, like so…

var options = {
width: 350,
height: 350,
quality: 75
}
MeteorCamera.getPicture(options, function(err, data) {
if (err) {
console.log('error', err);
}
if (data) {
Session.set('img', data)
}
});

This will access the device camera. It works regardless if you’re on a phone or using a browser on your computer.

Want to be able to access the photo library on mobile? Just pass one additional option in. Like so....

var options = {
width: 350,
height: 350,
quality: 75,
sourceType: Camera.PictureSourceType.PHOTOLIBRARY
}
MeteorCamera.getPicture(options, function(err, data) {
if (err) {
console.log('error', err);
}
if (data) {
Session.set('img', data)
}
});

Note: Unlike the normal usage of

mdg:camera when you specify the `sourceType` it only works through Cordova (only tested on iOS so far).

Here’s a demo repo you can try: https://github.com/spencercarli/meteor-cordova-photolibrary

S/O to @hellogerard for finding this out.