Android 13 support - PhotoViewer unable to open image as permission changed

[vishal-revdiwala]

Behavior changes: Apps targeting Android 13 or higher
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/13/behavior-changes-13#granular-media-permissions

Plugin doesn't support. Please update accordingly.

[AbidR-S2]

I've just made a new pull request to fix this issue #236
Tested that it is working using Samsung Tab Active 3s. One of them running Android 13 and the other running Android 12. Both are previewing files correctly.

[cmohanraj10]

@AbidR-S2 We are still facing the issue and can't open the image. We can see Photos and videos permission under App Info and doesn't work even after enabling it manually.

Here is our config XML :

<plugin name="com-sarriaroman-photoviewer"/>

<config-file parent="/manifest" target="AndroidManifest.xml">
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES" android:minSdkVersion="33" />
</config-file>

Any solution?

[AbidR-S2]

Are you installing the original plugin or my specific pull request with my code changes.
Even if you make those changes in your config XML, the plugin itself needs code changes to work in Android 13 and also backwards compatibility for Android 12 or less.

You can see those code changes here https://github.com/sarriaroman/photoviewer/pull/236/files
The new conditionals around getting permissions is required to view pictures.

[banothurameshnaik]

We are facing the same issue and tried different solutions.
Finally, I was able to find this PR mentioned above by @AbidR-S2.
Since PR is still open, I copied all the changes suggested in the PR into my codebase and it worked well.
Thanks @AbidR-S2

[jorgedferreira]

@banothurameshnaik and @AbidR-S2 , I've made the changes in the local code (inside node_modules - I know it's not the best solution and I'll change it afterwards) but it still doesn't work. It doesn't ask for permissions.

I've done a cordova platform rm android && cordova platform add android@13 but still nothing...

How can i best solve this? Any help appreciated and thanks for your hard work!

Update: I've actually "solved" the issue by doing this:

Remove current plugin: cordova plugin remove com-sarriaroman-photoviewer

Add the plugin but using @AbidR-S2 PR: cordova plugin add https://github.com/sarriaroman/photoviewer.git#pull/236

[rolinger]

@jorgedferreira @AbidR-S2 -

For some reason dropping and re-adding the plugin fails with: cordova plugin add https://github.com/sarriaroman/photoviewer.git#pull/236

I get the following error:

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! Command failed: git checkout pull/236
npm ERR! error: pathspec 'pull/236' did not match any file(s) known to git

I am on a windows machine, command line.

[jorgedferreira]

Strange, I've added it that way to 3 or 4 projects now and it worked, but I'm using MacOS

[rolinger]

@AbidR-S2 - is the pull reference above the same as your fork: https://github.com/AbidR-S2/photoviewer

It installs fine with cordova plugin add but its throwing a build error:

Element uses-permission#android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES at AndroidManifest.xml:20:3-100 duplicated with element declared at AndroidManifest.xml:12:3-73

[rolinger]

Well, for now I manually edited the PhotoViewer.java file with the @AbidR-S2 changes and it worked. Not certain why I couldn't do the plugin add with the pull/236 version, but hopefully someone merges all these fixes for the future.