Hi, I am new to this. I wish to launch a camera when my app is opened, take the pictures, and perhaps do some formatting to the photos taken before sharing them through facebook or email. Can you guide me through what are the steps needed, thank you!

Hmm... I don't think BuzzTouch has the in-built functionality to format the pictures :S However, I'm interested to see if anyone knows if its possible- it certainly could be, but I haven't heard/seen it.

Hi, Welcome to buzztouch! Well, the taking a picture and sending it off via email part exists, for sure! But no native capability to edit or format the picture at all. You would have to add that via custom code or write a new plugin or something. Thanks, Mark

You can try building this in: http://www.aviary.com/ However unless you have some decent coding background and are very familiar with Buzztouch structure, its not easy task. I spent the better part of night working on it on android only to fail miserably. Made implementing push notifications like a walk in the park.

^^ i'm still playing with AVIARY in iOS. I'm thru 3 of 5 steps and my APP is still compiling. Was all set to dig in more and then the person i'm working on this APP for asked me about Instagram. They are big fans of it. I found that Instagram works with the URL Schemes in iOS. So if you do the 3rd party App screen in your app and use this: instagram://camera That will launch Instagram if they have it loaded on their device and you can take pictures and edit them in the Instagram APP. it would be nice if there was a URL Scheme for the native iphone camera but i can't find one. But I still want to get AVIARY working so they stay inside the app. I'm getting close to having some specific questions on the Aviary integration. I'm trying to find the spots in the BT code where i can invoke it. I'm looking closely at these 2 files- (it's like learnign a new foreign language. I think i can ask where the bathroom is and what time it is - but it's gonna be a bit before i'm ordering dinner....) BT_photo BT_viewController

Is there a way that you could take pictures and have them directly uploaded to your apps gallery? Or would this require me to write my own code.

This is exactly what I'm looking for. Tonight is my first night here and I'm hoping to create an app for a client that is a nonprofit involved in energy efficiency. The basic function of the app will be to allow people (other nonprofits) to use the app to take a picture of their energy efficiency projects and email them to us. Maybe include a short description of the image. From what Im reading hear, calling up the camera and emailing the image is a basic function that is available? Thanks in advance.

welcome. just spent some time dealing with electrical aggregation for my community. bills cut in half! a few ways to go with this. The basic functionality to do this are both avail in BT 1.4/BT 1.5 but the 2.0 Self Hosted lacks an Image Uploader. So unless you are building your own code - I would think the Bt 1.5 Image gallery and use Flickr as the back end storage. The Flickr gallery allows for better descriptions and not just APP users can then access and upload/moderate, etc, the gallery. lots of great threads on Flickr here, search around. This thread got me steered in the right direction. got fox? really seemed to know Flickr and was a big help -> http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=12AC6263FC09A9E177D6D32 this site might give you a good idea of how you would do this manually outside of BT as well. i've been building something like this myself that i hope will incorporate Aviary to format/edit pictures.... (very early stages) http://mobiledevelopertips.com/camera/camera-application-to-take-pictures-and-save-images-to-photo-album.html