doneit-web/src/app/services/camera.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { CaptureImageOptions, MediaCapture, MediaFile } from '@awesome-cordova-plugins/media-capture/ngx';
import { Camera,  CameraResultType, CameraSource, Photo} from '@capacitor/camera';
import { File } from "@awesome-cordova-plugins/file/ngx"
@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class CameraService {

  constructor(
    private mediaCapture: MediaCapture,
    private file: File) { }


  async takePicture() {

    return new Promise<Photo>(async (resolve, reject)=>{



      const image = await Camera.getPhoto({
        quality: 50,
        allowEditing: false,
        resultType: CameraResultType.Uri,
        source: CameraSource.Camera // Camera, Photos or Prompt!
      });

      if (image) {
        resolve(image)

      } else {
        reject('Error saving image')
      }

        //this.capturedImage = this.capturedImage;
    })

  }

  async startRecording() {
    try {
      let options: CaptureImageOptions = { limit: 1}

      const data: MediaFile[] = (await this.mediaCapture.captureVideo(options) as any )
      const video = data[0]

      let dir = video.fullPath.split("/")
      dir.pop()
      let fromDir = dir.join("/")
      let toDir = this.file.dataDirectory

      const response = await this.file.copyFile(fromDir, video.name, toDir, video.name  )
      console.log({response})

    } catch(e) {
      console.log(e)
    }
  }

  nice() {}
}