Automatically takePicture?

Is there any way to trigger takePicture without the user having to intervene?

Here's my code
http://pastie.org/1103252

All I want to do is to show the camera, wait 2 seconds and then automatically shoot. I know this is possible natively because there are apps that are timer photo apps.

http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/1534

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same question here. The documentation says it should work with takePicture but on Android it will show the camera and you have to take the picture yourself. Is it broken?

— answered May 29th 2011 by Michael G.
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I am curious to this functionality as well. My use case is that I am needing to automatically take a sequence of pictures: show camera viewfinder, snap the photo automatically, show the result for a couple seconds save the photo then repeat for a specified number of times or until event.

— answered July 26th 2011 by Jerod Fritz
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Did you ever solve this? I'm looking to do something similar. I want the camera to take a picture under my control and not have any user intervention.

— answered February 26th 2012 by Manuel Flores
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hey did you solve it?i have to do the same thing!

— answered August 7th 2012 by Cristina Nardin
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No, I never did. I believe it's against Apple rules to have a picture taken without some user interaction. As a result, I abandoned my idea.

— answered August 8th 2012 by Manuel Flores
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var timer1 = setInterval(function(){
    Titanium.Media.takePicture();
},2000);

var picsTaken = 1;
Titanium.Media.showCamera({
    saveToPhotoGallery: true,
    success: function(event)
    {    
        var img = event.media;
        imgName = day + '.' + month + '.' + year + '-' + picsTaken +  '.png';
        imgFile = Titanium.Filesystem.getFile(imgDir.nativePath,imgName);
        imgFile.write(img);
        alert('File is saved in ' + imgFile.nativePath);
        picsTaken++;
        if(picsTaken>5)
        {
            picsTaken = 1;
        }
    },
    cancel: function(){},
    error: function(error)
    {
        var a = Titanium.UI.createAlertDialog({title:'Video'});
        if (error.code == Titanium.Media.NO_VIDEO)
        {
            a.setMessage('Device does not have video recording capabilities');
        }
        else
        {
            a.setMessage('Unexpected error: ' + error.code);
        }
        a.show();
    },
    overlay : overlay,
    showControls: false,
    mediaTypes: Titanium.Media.MEDIA_TYPE_PHOTO,
    autohide: false
});

— commented August 13th 2012 by Cristina Nardin

Thank you for the solution. I'll try it out

— commented August 13th 2012 by Jerod Fritz

Oh wait, it wasn't the picture taking that was the problem, it was the sending of a picture via email with no user interaction that was the problem.

— answered August 27th 2012 by Manuel Flores
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