Multimedia in CommCare

CommCare supports a wide variety of multimedia in applications - including images, audio recordings, or videos. Incorporating multimedia may increase user engagement and understanding of the application. This includes both sharing multimedia as well as capturing multimedia from users, including photos, videos, audio, etc.

What Type of Multimedia does CommCare support?

How do you use multimedia in CommCare?

Incorporating Multimedia files

The CommCare application builders can incorporate multimedia files into the CommCare application. This will enable end-users to effectively communicate important information during their use of the application.

Below is an example of incorporating multimedia into a CommCare application.

   Capturing Multimedia files

The CommCare application builders can enable the multimedia capture functionality in the CommCare application. This will help end-users to record important information or evidence during their use of the application.

Below is an example of capturing multimedia in a CommCare application.

What type of multimedia files does CommCare support?

CommCare can support a variety of media types depending upon your phone. We recommend using the following:

Useful links

See useful links below about multimedia for application builders:

• Audio files 

• Images

• Videos 

• Icons

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  • Adding Icons in Case List and Case Detail screen

• Managing multimedia (Best Practices)

• Installing multimedia

See useful links below about multimedia for end-users:

• Capturing multimedia in the application