Camera Plugin 6.0.0 Released!

By: Bryan Ellis

23 Aug 2021

We are happy to announce that we have just released an update to our Camera plugin!

We are happy to announce that we have just released an update for Cordova Camera Plugin (6.0.0)!

To upgrade:

cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-camera
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-camera@6.0.0

Release Highlights

Requires Cordova-Android 10.x of higher

This major release has bumped the minimum Cordova-Android requirement to 10.x or higher. This requirement change was made for the AndroidX Only Support initiative.

If your project is using an older Cordova-Android release, please upgrade the Android platform before using it.
```
  cordova platform remove android
  cordova platform add android@10.x
```
AndroidX Only Support

In this release, we have completely migrated to the AndroidX library and no longer support the Android Support Library.

If you were using the cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter plugin to migrate the Camera's legacy Android Support Library references to the new AndroidX references, it can be removed unless your project is using other third-party plugins that have not migrated to AndroidX.
HEIC Support

We introduced support to encode the HEIC file formats to the defined EncodingType for WebView display.
Package Visibility Support

We have updated this plugin to support the breaking changes that were introduced in Android 11 around package visibility.

For more information on package visibility, please check out the following Google's resources:
- Package visibility in Android 11
- Package visibility filtering on Android

Please report any issues you find at issues.cordova.io!

Changes include:

Feature:

GH-751 feat(android)!: support AndroidX
GH-750 feat(android): bump cordova-android requirements for 10.x
GH-731 feat(android): encode heic format to EncodingType for webview display #711
GH-684 feat(android): sdk-30 package visibility support

Fix: