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From: =?UTF-8?Q?Frederico_Galv=C3=A3o?= <frederico.galvao@pontoget.com.br>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:24:45 -0300
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Subject: Re: [Android] FileProvider Hell
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Most serious cordova/phonegap plugins I know already make use of some form
of "*com.android.support:**", I would say that even though <technically>
it's a bad thing to make cordova-android depend on it by default, it won't
be a problem in practice.

2016-07-26 15:54 GMT-03:00 julio cesar sanchez <jcesarmobile@gmail.com>:

> Ah, I didn't understand that part, I thought they were using their own
> content provider.
>
> Yes, camera plugin will need a rewrite, but I don't think we have another
> choice
>
> El martes, 26 de julio de 2016, Joe Bowser <bowserj@gmail.com> escribi=C3=
=B3:
>
> > The FileProvider class is provided by the Android Compat library.  If w=
e
> > don't use Android Compat, we'd have to write the provider, and
> re-inventing
> > the wheel is worse than having to use the FileProvider.  It's looking
> more
> > and more like we're going to have to completely re-write Camera because
> > it's dependent on real file locations instead of the garbage that Googl=
e
> is
> > making us use.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:35 AM, julio cesar sanchez <
> > jcesarmobile@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > The blog talks about "fixing" it using a content provider, how can it
> be
> > > fixed with android-compat?
> > >
> > >
> > > El martes, 26 de julio de 2016, Joe Bowser <bowserj@gmail.com
> > <javascript:;>> escribi=C3=B3:
> > >
> > > > Hey
> > > >
> > > > It looks like we're hit by this change in Android, which makes it s=
o
> > that
> > > > we can no longer use file providers.  There's an easy fix, but it's
> > not a
> > > > pretty one.  We're going to have to add Android-Compat as a
> dependency
> > > for
> > > > Cordova.  This is really bad, and could cause a lot of things to
> screw
> > up
> > > > horribly when it comes to third party plugins that also use this as=
 a
> > > > dependency.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://inthecheesefactory.com/blog/how-to-share-access-to-file-with-file=
provider-on-android-nougat/en
> > > >
> > > > A part of me is temped to think that the Android team did this on
> > purpose
> > > > to try and break Cordova, since content providers and content URIs
> > aren't
> > > > even remotely valid uses of the web and we've been dealing with
> broken
> > > > content providers ever since we started.  I personally hate this, b=
ut
> > > it's
> > > > the only way we can move forward at all.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone have any thoughts on this?
> > > >
> > > > Joe
> > > >
> > >
> >
>


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