You'll surely find it useful to use the camera of your iPhone. By default, a basic application is included with the phone that allows you to take pictures and save them automatically to the internal memory. You can then access your pictures through the Photo Library application.
However, it could be interesting to develop our own applications that can take and display pictures inside a container or other kind of element. For example, we can implement a feature for our application which allows taking and displaying pictures in a specific area of the screen delimited by a container element.
Most of the recipes in this book are focused on web applications instead of native applications. It is possible to build native applications using CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and the PhoneGap framework. Some features of the iOS operating system are inaccessible from a pure web application, such as taking and displaying pictures. The process we'll use to interact with the iPhone...