Question

Is there a way you can use as3 to access iPad’s camera?

• I mean start the Camera within the app itself
• have ability take a shoot and save the image to byteArray and applying the image to the background or doing some manipulation

I have done some research most of them just showing how to access the android devices.
Thanks for any suggestion or help.

Answer 1

Yes, you can absolutely do this. The beauty of Flash is that the code to do it is the same that you would use on Android or a PC.

Literally, you can do this to connect the camera to a Video object:

var camera:Camera = Camera.getCamera();
var video=new Video();
video.attachCamera(camera);
this.addChild(video); // 'this' would be a Sprite or UIComponent, etc...

There’s a lot more to do if you want to do something useful, but it’s fairly straight forward once you get started 🙂