Phone camera – How to switch cameras on Power Apps mobile!

Introduction

Taking pictures can be fun! And if you can take them from within your apps, even better! One of the Power Apps controls using which users can take pictures is the Camera control (read more here).

Tip - Multiple cameras

Almost all new mobile devices typically have more than 1 camera. While you can specify the ID of the camera you want to use using the Camera property, not all devices follow the same nomenclature. 0 can be the front facing camera on some devices and can be the rear on others. So hard coding the ID is never a good idea. To get the list of available devices, set this as the Items property of a gallery (galCamera):

Camera1.AvailableDevices

Camera1 is the name of the camera control.

You can then set the ID property of the camera control to

galCamera.Selected.Id

To illustrate this, here is a quick demo on my Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus:

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