Cordova

One of our app utilize photographs taken using device camera. It was required to resize the taken image. After searching, it is realized that there is no native cordova plugin for image manipulations on different mobile platforms. It is also realized that canvas element of HTML can be utilized for image manipulations. There are numerous libraries that makes manipulations possible using canvas, all of them were supposed use from UI or required user facing canvas. But it was not the case in our app.

Identifying size of device screen is easy in a Cordova application. But is not available directly. We can get the screen object from window.screen and it has width and height properties. The problem is, these width and height may not represent physical screen, but the concept called CSS pixel.

I have faced several issues with MySQL installation while setting it up in my system. Hope this article will help you fix the mysql related issues. Here, I document the various steps I have taken to update MySQL installation.