Android 10 Feb. update not reading images

[rklus16]

When trying to select a photo from the image picker getPictures error function returns "The image file could not be opened." Tested on device and emulator. Same result with a file_uri or base64.

Plugin works correctly on Android 9.

[deliverymanager]

Did you find any solution on this?

[rklus16]

No, decided to switch back to the camera plugin which only allows selecting one image at a time but it works. Still use this for iOS though until a fix for Android is available.

[deliverymanager]

Looks like this happens to other plugins too.
The reason is that the Android 10 has a new way to read the storage.
For now you can use <preference name="android-targetSdkVersion" value="28" />
in order to target older version that uses the older file system.

This way I solved it for now ...

[rklus16]

@deliverymanager thanks for the heads up. I didn't even think about trying that. Reason being is this plugin seemed to be working with Android 10 pre-February patch update. I'll give this a shot.

[gaurav-chandra]

This is happening with me also. <preference name="android-targetSdkVersion" value="28" /> solves this but not api level 29. I am on Android 10 pixel phone.

[gaurav-chandra]

Add the following in config under android platform:

        <edit-config file="app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml" mode="merge" target="/manifest/application">
            <application android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true" /><!--Needed for image picker-->
        </edit-config>

and use target sdk 29. Then build. Ensure that the build-tools need to be version >=30. If using 30.0.0-rc-2, the app will not build.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58430070/android-apiv29-filenotfoundexception-eacces-permission-denied

[arihantdaga]

I tried gaurav's suggestions, but i kept getting build errors.
I didn't know how to port his plugin properly, so I made a clone for it to work with android storage access framework, keeping same API.
https://github.com/arihantdaga/cordova-plugin-imagepicker

Later, i'll try to do rearrange the code and fit in this repo itself, and based on the platform version it can chose which way to use to access images.

[coddark]

Add the following in config under android platform:

        <edit-config file="app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml" mode="merge" target="/manifest/application">
            <application android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true" /><!--Needed for image picker-->
        </edit-config>

and use target sdk 29. Then build. Ensure that the build-tools need to be version >=30. If using 30.0.0-rc-2, the app will not build.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58430070/android-apiv29-filenotfoundexception-eacces-permission-denied

@gaurav-chandra I tried your solution, but it does not work in some devices.

[scr34m]

See #220 about this issue to be fixed, with out any work arounds.

[saviour2008]

I install version 2.3.3 in order to resolve #216 ,but if I add <application android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true" /> in , it will throw the error #212 , so there is no <application android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true" /> in config.xml, but now there is not reading images in Android 10, so should I install which version? @scr34m