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we used gravity forms for one gig. On mobile a mobile browser say an iphone, you can take snap a pic with a camera and upload / attach it and send it via the fo

we used gravity forms for one gig. On mobile a mobile browser say an iphone, you can take snap a pic with a camera and upload / attach it and send it via the form. That was our basic need / feature for this particular MVP. i found this article in stakoverflow: In 2015 Google introduced a new approach for developing web apps for Android: progressive web apps. One can create an application that will look like a native application, will be able to use device's hardware like camera and accelerometers, receive push notifications, have a launcher icon, work in offline, store local data, etc.

AndrewKemendo 9y ago
Yea Android supports all of that including camera through getusermedia, iOS doesn't.
- adamqureshi 9y ago
  So i tested the form. OnClick attach a pic / or take a pic in iOS i took a pic and attached and on submit it sent the form with image to the email the form was going too. Is that not it?
  - AndrewKemendo 9y ago
    Yea that's UIImagePickerController, but obfuscated by whatever other wrapper you're using. You can do that to transfer images or upload images through iOS, basic file picker/transfer basically but doesn't invoke any other frameworks or deeper integration. What you can't do is get the video feed into a WebKit browser. It's a business decision Apple did to prevent image based Web Apps on iOS. They want them all on native apps, though we might see it with WebRTC integration.
    - adamqureshi 9y ago
      oh gotcha, yes my use case was very simple. in iOS chrome / safari after filling out basic form fields, name / email then upload pic / attach image ( pulls up the camera / attach image icons) Select or take a pic with camera Upload / attach pic Send / Submit form. That was all i needed. Then that image comes through email. For a local messenger start up in NYC. Pick up / delivery. Customer needs upload a pic of the bags being picked up then delivered to destination. All local / same day stuff. I maybe didn't need all the other stuff, just enough to solve this specific problem in a mobile web app. Customer was happy with the demo i showed them. Got the gig.

AndrewKemendo 9y ago

Yea Android supports all of that including camera through getusermedia, iOS doesn't.

adamqureshi 9y ago
So i tested the form. OnClick attach a pic / or take a pic in iOS i took a pic and attached and on submit it sent the form with image to the email the form was going too. Is that not it?
- AndrewKemendo 9y ago
  Yea that's UIImagePickerController, but obfuscated by whatever other wrapper you're using. You can do that to transfer images or upload images through iOS, basic file picker/transfer basically but doesn't invoke any other frameworks or deeper integration. What you can't do is get the video feed into a WebKit browser. It's a business decision Apple did to prevent image based Web Apps on iOS. They want them all on native apps, though we might see it with WebRTC integration.
  - adamqureshi 9y ago
    oh gotcha, yes my use case was very simple. in iOS chrome / safari after filling out basic form fields, name / email then upload pic / attach image ( pulls up the camera / attach image icons) Select or take a pic with camera Upload / attach pic Send / Submit form. That was all i needed. Then that image comes through email. For a local messenger start up in NYC. Pick up / delivery. Customer needs upload a pic of the bags being picked up then delivered to destination. All local / same day stuff. I maybe didn't need all the other stuff, just enough to solve this specific problem in a mobile web app. Customer was happy with the demo i showed them. Got the gig.