Taking or choosing photos

It's very common to work with the camera in applications: you want to take a photo or video, post on social media, or just keep it as records, from expenses to business cards.

For this recipe, we will use a Xamarin plugin to simplify the process and achieve the goal of using the camera for capturing photos and videos with a couple of code lines.

How to do it…

  1. Create a Blank App (Xamarin.Forms Portable) solution from File | New | Project…, named XamFormsTakingPhotos and click OK.
  2. For each project created, we will add the Xam.Plugin.Media NuGet package. Right-click the projects one by one, choose Manage NuGet Packages and search and install the Xam.Plugin.Media package.
  3. Three permissions are required in the Android Manifest. ...

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