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PhoneGap/Cordova - Not getting the "camera permission" prompts

I am using the PhoneGap Desktop emulator to test my app that just takes a picture using the device camera. All works well in the PhoneGap app on Android and iOS. I get the prompts before I take a picture asking to allow PhoneGap to have access to the camera. Then, all future camera requests work OK. As I would expect.
However, when I create the native apps, and run them on iOS/Android devices, they no longer prompt me for permission to use the camera, and on iOS it just crashes when I try to open the camera. On Android, it just does nothing when I trigger the camera.
I'm struggling to work out why it works using the PhoneGap App, but doesn't when I run it as a native App? Am I missing something?
I am creating the App structure, adding platforms/plugins etc. using the cordova CLI on my Ubuntu server. I am using the Adobe PhoneGap build servers (v7.0.1) to compile the native Apps. I was only using PhoneGap desktop to test this issue.
iOS device OS version = v11.0.3
Android device OS version = 7.0
My config.xml file:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<widget id="com.mycameraapp" version="1.0.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">
<name>My Camera App</name>
<description>
Test App
</description>
<author email="hello#mycameraapp.com" href="http://www.mycameraapp.com">
My Camera App
</author>
<content src="index.html" />
<plugin name="cordova-plugin-whitelist" spec="1" />
<access origin="*" />
<allow-intent href="http://*/*" />
<allow-intent href="https://*/*" />
<allow-intent href="tel:*" />
<allow-intent href="sms:*" />
<allow-intent href="mailto:*" />
<allow-intent href="geo:*" />
<platform name="android">
<allow-intent href="market:*" />
</platform>
<platform name="ios">
<allow-intent href="itms:*" />
<allow-intent href="itms-apps:*" />
</platform>
<engine name="ios" spec="~4.5.3" />
<engine name="android" spec="~6.3.0" />
<plugin name="cordova-plugin-camera" spec="^3.0.0">
<variable name="CAMERA_USAGE_DESCRIPTION" value="To take pictures from within the App" />
<variable name="PHOTOLIBRARY_USAGE_DESCRIPTION" value="To take pictures from within the App" />
</plugin>
</widget>
The JavaScript that triggers the camera:
function upload_case_image(mode) {
openCamera(mode);
}
function setOptions(srcType) {
var options = {
// Some common settings are 20, 50, and 100
quality: localStorage.getItem('image_quality'), // Image quality is defined in the database
destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.DATA_URL,
// In this app, dynamically set the picture source, Camera or photo gallery
sourceType: srcType,
encodingType: Camera.EncodingType.JPEG,
mediaType: Camera.MediaType.PICTURE,
allowEdit: false,
correctOrientation: true //Corrects Android orientation quirks
}
return options;
}
function openCamera(mode) {
var srcType = Camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA;
var options = setOptions(srcType);
navigator.camera.getPicture(function cameraSuccess(imageUri) {
upload_image(mode, imageUri);
}, function cameraError(error) {
console.debug("Unable to obtain picture: " + error, "app");
}, options);
}
My index.html is in the normal place within www, and references the corodva.js file:
<!-- Cordova -->
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="cordova.js"></script>

Looks like I've worked out where I was going wrong.
I was using Cordova, rather than the PhoneGap CLI. I installed Node.js on my PC, then installed PhoneGap (npm install -g phonegap#latest).
Then using command prompt I created the App using PhoneGap in Windows, instead of using Cordova on Ubunutu.
When I uploaded it to the Adobe build servers to build the PhoneGap App, it appears to work now.
Makes sense why I would encounter some difficulties.

Cordova iOS Simulator tel and mailto not working

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I get the error in the Xcode console as
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Same for mailto. How can this be fixed? I've added these to config.xml.
<access origin="tel:*" launch-external="yes"/>
<access origin="geo:*" launch-external="yes"/>
<access origin="mailto:*" launch-external="yes"/>
<access origin="sms:*" launch-external="yes"/>
<access origin="market:*" launch-external="yes"/>
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and in android using
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<description>
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<allow-intent href="*" />
<allow-navigation href="*" />
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<preference name="SplashScreen" value="screen"/>
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<param name="ios-package" value="CDVStatusBar" onload="true"/>
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<platform name="android">
<icon src="resources/android/icon/drawable-ldpi-icon.png" density="ldpi"/>
<icon src="resources/android/icon/drawable-mdpi-icon.png" density="mdpi"/>
<icon src="resources/android/icon/drawable-hdpi-icon.png" density="hdpi"/>
<icon src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xhdpi-icon.png" density="xhdpi"/>
<icon src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxhdpi-icon.png" density="xxhdpi"/>
<icon src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxxhdpi-icon.png" density="xxxhdpi"/>
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<splash src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-mdpi-screen.png" density="land-mdpi"/>
<splash src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-hdpi-screen.png" density="land-hdpi"/>
<splash src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xhdpi-screen.png" density="land-xhdpi"/>
<splash src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xxhdpi-screen.png" density="land-xxhdpi"/>
<splash src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xxxhdpi-screen.png" density="land-xxxhdpi"/>
<splash src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-ldpi-screen.png" density="port-ldpi"/>
<splash src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-mdpi-screen.png" density="port-mdpi"/>
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I am debugging the app in chrome devtools and this is the error I get in console for the app
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Interestingly enough, I had the same issue while developing my app.
Have you installed the plugin correctly? You didn't mention if you did.
You need to install the cordova whitelist plugin first. I did this via npm.
I also added all access to resources in my config.xml:
<access origin="*" />
<allow-intent href="*" />
<allow-navigation href="*" />
Though, that is not recommended. Rather, allow access to the resources you need for the app.

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<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="10000" />
<preference name="auto-hide-splash-screen" value="false" />
<preference name="AutoHideSplashScreen" value="false" />
<preference name="FadeSplashScreen" value="true" />
<preference name="fade-splash-screen-duration" value="5000" />
<preference name="splash-screen-duration" value="5000" />
<gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.splashscreen" />
<feature name="SplashScreen">
<param name="ios-package" value="CDVSplashScreen"/>
<param name="onload" value="true" />
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navigator.splashscreen.hide();
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Are you running the app in debug with xcode? Are there any messages output?
I've had this issue before and got a warning saying "The splashscreen image named Default-Portrait was not found"
My splash screen was named something else, so I created another called "Default-Portrait" and added it to the project.
Same goes for the #2x version.

Phonegap - configuring the config.xml file to enable the camera

I am trying to create an app that makes use of the camera on the device. When I run the app on my Android phone, I can get it to work no problem. However, when I package it using the Phonegap builder, I can't seem to get the camera to open.
My guess is it's a problem with the config.xml file. This is what mine looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<widget xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"
xmlns:gap = "http://phonegap.com/ns/1.0"
id = "com.test.testApp"
version = "1.0.0">
<name>Test App</name>
<description>
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</description>
<author href="http://mysite.com"
email="geoff#email.com">
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<gap:platforms>
<gap:platform name="android" minVersion="2.1" />
<gap:platform name="webos" />
<gap:platform name="symbian.wrt" />
<gap:platform name="blackberry" project="widgets"/>
</gap:platforms>
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<!--<gap:splash src="weirdo.png" />-->
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/geolocation"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/network"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/geolocation"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/file"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/camera"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/media"/>
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/device"/>
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<!--<preference name="android-minSdkVersion" value="7" /> -->
</widget>
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UPDATE:
So I tried including the Android specific JS file cordova-1.7.0.js and everything worked. So it looks like the Phonegap build is not adding the necessary files. Does anyone know anything about that? Thanks.

Any reason why you have
<feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/geolocation"/>
twice?

So the solution lay in the include files. I was still including the phonegap.js file, and it was breaking the build process. I removed the various references to that file and it fixed it.