Access camera or webcam without webRTC

Question

In my website, it needs to access camera or webcam. But webRTC is not supported yet on ios webview based on https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/88052 (please cmiiw). So, I'm trying to find a way to access it without webRTC. Is there any?

1. And is this following code, a part of utilizing webRTC? Because the console.log shows up on ios webview

   function hasGetUserMedia() { return !!(navigator.getUserMedia || navigator.webkitGetUserMedia || navigator.mozGetUserMedia || navigator.msGetUserMedia); } //then, somewhere in the code if (!hasGetUserMedia()) { console.log( "webRTC is not supported in your browser" );//it shows up on ios webview } //other code navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ audio: false, //no audio video: {deviceId: {exact: videoSource.camera_id} } })

2. If yes, so what's the workaround which not using webRTC, and can be run on android webview, ios webview, and web browsers?

Answer 1

2021 Edit:

We now have access to getUserMedia on iOS WebViews!

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The Good News:

As of iOS 14.3, iOS now allows access to getUserMedia in a WKWebView

Whenever I have questions about browser features like this, I find it very helpful to check out caniuse.com . In this case, there is a note on the entry for Safari & Chrome for iOS

Before iOS 14.3 getUserMedia returned no video input devices in UIWebView or WKWebView , but only directly in Safari

The Old News:

Prior to 2021, we could not access getUserMedia on iOS outside of Safari. So back then, a workaround was to build a website and direct iOS users to visit the site in Safari instead of making a native app for iOS.

The Other News:

getUserMedia controls access to a user's camera and microphone, whereas WebRTC helps you send that audio/video to another client, like in a video chat. Here you're stuck on getting the video in the first place so you don't need to worry about WebRTC yet, but when you do, I recommend you check out This article that helped me.

And if you want to test getUserMedia or WebRTC functions yourself, try using These provided samples , so that you can be sure that it is not the fault of your own code :)