I was working on a Phonegap app recently and one of the goals was to allow the user to record some feedback as an audio file which would later be shared. If you hit Google, there’s plenty of StackOverflow threads which claim to have working sample code. Almost all of the SO code is using the Phonegap Media API with the “startRecording”/”stopRecording” functions. Despite it looking simple, I could never get the Media based code working on iOS. For whatever reason, I kept hitting iOS permission errors trying to create the recording file. On Android, the code works but I kept ending up with an “AMR” file instead of the expected 3gp recording.
So what’s the alternative? Turns out there’s another Phonegap API called Capture which has a captureAudio method which lets you record audio. As opposed to Media, captureAudio uses the device’s native audio recording UI to let you to record audio. Because of this, captureAudio won’t work for all use cases but the implementation is straightforward and consistent across Android and iOS.
Anyway, here’s the code to record some audio and upload it to a server:
Then, on the server you can just grab the file from say the $_FILES[“file”] variable.