Cordova Plugin For Multiple Image Selection - implemented for iOS and Android 4.0 and above.

The plugin conforms to the Cordova plugin specification, it can be installed using the Cordova / Phonegap command line interface.

# without desc
phonegap plugin add https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/ImagePicker.git
cordova plugin add https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/ImagePicker.git

# with desc
phonegap plugin add https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/ImagePicker.git --variable PHOTO_LIBRARY_USAGE_DESCRIPTION="your usage message"

cordova plugin add https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/ImagePicker.git --variable PHOTO_LIBRARY_USAGE_DESCRIPTION="your usage message"

The plugin creates the object window.imagePicker with the method getPictures(success, fail, options)

Example - Get Full Size Images (all default options):

window.imagePicker.getPictures(
    function(results) {
        for (var i = 0; i < results.length; i++) {
            console.log('Image URI: ' + results[i]);
        }
    }, function (error) {
        console.log('Error: ' + error);
    }
);

Example - Get at most 10 images scaled to width of 800:

window.imagePicker.getPictures(
    function(results) {
        for (var i = 0; i < results.length; i++) {
            console.log('Image URI: ' + results[i]);
        }
    }, function (error) {
        console.log('Error: ' + error);
    }, {
        maximumImagesCount: 10,
        width: 800
    }
);

Android: since 2.3.6 the Android side routes through the system photo picker (PickVisualMedia), which returns the original image and needs no runtime permission. The width, height, quality and outputType options below are still accepted for backwards compatibility but are ignored on Android: images are returned at original resolution and always as file:// URIs (the BASE64_STRING output is no longer produced). They continue to apply on iOS.

options = {
    // Android only. Max images to be selected, defaults to 15. If this is set to 1, upon
    // selection of a single image, the plugin will return it.
    maximumImagesCount: int,
    
    // iOS only (ignored on Android). Max width and height to allow the images to be.
    // Will keep aspect ratio no matter what.  So if both are 800, the returned image
    // will be at most 800 pixels wide and 800 pixels tall.  If the width is
    // 800 and height 0 the image will be 800 pixels wide if the source
    // is at least that wide.
    width: int,
    height: int,
    
    // iOS only (ignored on Android). quality of resized image, defaults to 100
    quality: int (0-100),

    // iOS only (ignored on Android). output type, defaults to FILE_URIs.
    // available options are 
    // window.imagePicker.OutputType.FILE_URI (0) or 
    // window.imagePicker.OutputType.BASE64_STRING (1)
    outputType: int
};

The selected images are copied into the app-private cache directory and returned as file:// URIs. The plugin sweeps its own leftover temp files (ipick_*) at the start of each pick, and the cache is app-private (Android may also evict it under storage pressure); even so, move or delete the files once you have read them in JavaScript.

Android: none. Since 2.3.6 the plugin uses the system photo picker (PickVisualMedia), which grants per-selection access without any READ_MEDIA_* / READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. The hasReadPermission / requestReadPermission methods are kept as no-op stubs (hasReadPermission always resolves true, requestReadPermission succeeds immediately) so existing callers keep working — there is nothing to request.

iOS: access is governed by NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription, as before.

For iOS this plugin uses the ELCImagePickerController, with slight modifications for the iOS image picker. ELCImagePicker uses the MIT License which can be found in the file LICENSE.

https://github.com/B-Sides/ELCImagePickerController

Since 2.3.6 the Android side uses the system photo picker from androidx.activity:activity (Apache 2.0). The previous Android implementation (MultiImageChooser, ImageFetcher, FakeR) was removed when the system photo picker replaced the in-app gallery.

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