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I am using cordova-plugin-camera to access the camera in Android. This was working fine until I changed the Target SDK version to API 26: Android 8.0 (Oreo) in order to be able to upload to the Google play store which now requires this version or above.

The error I get is

file:///data/user/0/mypackage/cache/Capture.jpg exposed beyond app through ClipData.Item.getUri()

which I believe is due to a change in how apps can access the file system from Android Nougat - see android.os.FileUriExposedException: file:///storage/emulated/0/test.txt exposed beyond app through Intent.getData().

I have tried fixing the issue with different versions of cordova, cordova android and the camera plugin as per https://github.com/ionic-team/ng-cordova/issues/1381 but in each case as soon as I change the TargetSDK to 26 I get the same error on an Android 8 phone.

I have added the following to my AndroidManifest.xml file

 <provider android:authorities="com.okappy.okappy.provider" android:exported="false" android:grantUriPermissions="true" android:name="android.support.v4.content.FileProvider">
 <meta-data android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS" android:resource="@xml/camera_provider_paths" />
 </provider>

And I have checked that I have a camera_provider_paths.xml with the following

 <paths xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<external-path name="external_files" path="."/>

I have also tried editing the following lines in cordova/camera/CordovaURI.java to forcibly ignore the fileUri but it made no difference

 public Uri getCorrectUri()

 /*if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M)
 return androidUri;
 else
 return fileUri;
 */
 return androidUri;

I have the following versions

• 8.1.2 (cordova-lib@8.1.1)




• android 7.1.2




• cordova-plugin-camera 4.0.3



• cordova-plugin-console 1.0.3


• cordova-plugin-file 6.0.1

I am using Compile SDK version 28.0.3, MinumumSDK version of 21 and TargetSDK version of 26.

Thanks in advance for your help

The issue is with our code rather than the plugin - view issue on github

We were using the following code

function captureImage() 
 navigator.device.capture.captureImage(captureImageSuccess, captureImageError, limit: 1);


function captureImageSuccess(mediaFiles) 
 uploadFile(mediaFiles[0]);


function uploadFile(mediaFile,fileType) //#F333
 var win = function (r) 


var options = new FileUploadOptions();
 ImageURL=mediaFile.fullPath;
 options.fileName = (fileType)? mediaFile.name : mediaFile.file; //#F333
 options.mimeType = "multipart/form-data";
 var params = new Object();
 params.fileName = 'AndroidPhoneUpload';
 params.imageType = (fileType)?fileType:'Picture'; //#F333
 var printName = prompt("Add a title",""); //#F644
 if (printName)
 params.printedName = printName;
 
 window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL(ImageURL, function(fileEntry) 
 fileEntry.file(function(fileObj) 
 params.fileSize = ""+fileObj.size;
 );
 );
 options.params = params;
 var ft = new FileTransfer();
 ft.upload(ImageURL, encodeURI("uploadURL"),win,fail,options);

Which we have replaced with

navigator.camera.getPicture(function cameraSuccess(imageUri) 
 var options = new FileUploadOptions();
 options.fileKey="file";
 options.fileName="test";
 options.mimeType="multipart/form-data";
 var params = new Object();
 params.fileName = 'AndroidPhoneUpload'; 
 options.params = params;
 var ft = new FileTransfer();
 ft.upload(imageUri, encodeURI("https://upload.okappy.com/UploadToS3"), win, fail, options);
 , function captureImageError(error) 
 console.debug("Unable to obtain picture: " + error, "app");
 , options);

Hope that helps!