FileProvider Not Working with Camera

Question

I\'m trying to make Camera App to store the output to my internal storage. I also understand that third party apps are not able to access the Internal Storage of my applicat

Answer 1

1. Please do not try to put exported="true" as pointed out by pskink, your app will crash the moment it loads. FileProvider is not meant to work in this state.

2. Tried intent.addFlags solution by CommonsWare. Not working. probably will only works with ACTION_SEND kind of intent.

3. I found the answer in this post. Apparently the manual granting way is the only solution. But we can always loop thru the list of candidate packages and grantPermission to all of them.

   List<ResolveInfo> resInfoList = context.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(intent, PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY);
   for (ResolveInfo resolveInfo : resInfoList) {
       String packageName = resolveInfo.activityInfo.packageName;
       context.grantUriPermission(packageName, uri, Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION | Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);
   }
   

Answer 2

I had a similar issue but later on I find out to have a typo in my code. The typo was in AndroidManifest.xml, precisely into the tag at the line "authorities".

For me,

android:authorities="com.stackoverflow.test.camerawithfileprovider.fileprovider"

doesn't work (when I call the camera instance, the app crashes) but if i delete "file" and replace that string as following:

android:authorities="com.stackoverflow.test.camerawithfileprovider.provider"

my app runs smoothly (the app takes the photo, stores it, and gives back a preview to the activity in the client app).

Does your app also have the same issue ?