title: Record video with Ionic without using external camera app
body: <p>I'm trying to let the user record a video within my Ionic app.
  I have looked into several plugins, such as <a href="https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/reference/cordova-plugin-camera/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">cordova-plugin-camera</a>, <a href="https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/media-capture/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">media-capture</a> and <a href="https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/video-capture-plus/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">video-capture-plus</a>. But these all open up the device's camera application and return the video. That's not what I need.</p>
  
  <p>I've also looked into <a href="https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/camera-preview/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">camera-preview</a>, which does let me see the camera view within my app, but it doesn't let me record video.</p>
  
  <p>Is anyone aware of any other plugin that does allow me to record video, without having to open an external app?</p>
  
  <p>If not, what would be some good key words to start researching to make this myself. Considering camera-preview shows the camera feed I feel like it has to be possible, even if the appropriate plugin doesn't exist yet.</p>
  
  <p>Edit: The solution needs to work on iOS as well as Android</p>