Turning camera off in fine-uploader on iOS - ios

Question

I'm very new to fine-uploader; I hope my question is relevant...
I'm trying to disable the camera for users of our Web App on iPad and iPhone only (iOS), both for Safari and Chrome. I have tried setting the option camera: {ios: false} but the camera option still shows in Safari and Chrome. When I use workarounds: { ios8BrowserCrash: true}, the camera option does disappear in Chrome but still shows in Safari. What am I missing?
We are using fine-uploader 5.1.2, I briefly tried 5.2.2 with the same results. The app is HTML5, Javascript, Angular with Java back-end. I have tested on iPad with iOS 8.3, 8.4 and 9 beta.
As an aside, the reason I'm trying to disable the camera is due to iOS often crashing when loading the image from the camera. I have found the application crashing a lot less when loading from the device image library, bypassing the camera. Is that a known issue with iPad/iPhones?
Thanks in advance for the help.

Answer 1

Thanks #Ray. For reference, I'm now using the latest FineUploader version 5.3.0.
As you suggested the multiple attribute was being removed. I traced it to the input.removeAttribute("multiple"); code below (s3.fine-uploader.js):
setMultiple: function(isMultiple, optInput) {
var input = optInput || this.getInput();
// Temporary workaround for bug in in iOS8 UIWebView that causes the browser to crash
// before the file chooser appears if the file input doesn't contain a multiple attribute.
// See #1283.
if (options.ios8BrowserCrashWorkaround && qq.ios8() && (qq.iosChrome() || qq.iosSafariWebView())) {
input.setAttribute("multiple", "");
}
else {
if (isMultiple) {
input.setAttribute("multiple", "");
}
else {
input.removeAttribute("multiple");
}
}
},
Despite options.ios8BrowserCrashWorkaround being set to true in my code (ios8BrowserCrash: true), the program was still going through to removeAttribute("multiple") line of code when running on IPad/Safari.
After several tries and errors I found out that (possibly...) the library code was missing testing for the condition qq.iosSafari()on an iPad (iOS 8.3) ; the qq.iosSafariWebView() test isn't sufficient to detect the Safari browser on my iPad, therefore missing the code where the multiple attribute is set.
I found out that the following options values in my calling code fixed the issue.
function initialiseS3() {
uploader = new qq.s3.FineUploader({
element: $element[0],
template: $(contents)[0],
debug: false,
// iosEmptyVideos workaround must be false to enable FineUploader to keep multiple:true in iOS
workarounds: {
iosEmptyVideos: false,
ios8BrowserCrash: true
},
// Must add the test qq.iosSafari() to set multiple to true and have the camera turned off on iPad
multiple: qq.ios8() && (qq.iosSafari() || qq.iosChrome() || qq.iosSafariWebView()) ? true : false,
camera: {
ios: false
},
… (more initialisations)
`
The last catch was to override the default value for the workaround option iosEmptyVideos and set it to iosEmptyVideos: false to avoid the library forcing multiple to false again. I hope this makes sense…