I implemented an app with Apache Cordova and I used $cordovaCamera plugin.
When the source type of $cordovaCamera is Camera.PictureSourceType.PHOTOLIBRARY the output is something like
"content://com.android.providers.media.documents/document/image"
and, when I use Camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA I get
"file:///storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.ionic.viewapp/cache/image.jpg".
In my case the format "file://.." is more useful.
It is possible get the file URI from the content URI?
I found many answers to this questions but all solutions are for JAVA, not for Javascript.
I found the problem.
I'm using Ionic and Ionic View for test in device.
When I tried the cordova-plugin-filepath it didn't work. But I found that the problem was that in Ionic View this plugin fails.
So, I wrote in a service this function:
// data is the return of $cordovaCamera.getPicture.
getFilePath: function(data){
var deferred = $q.defer();
window.FilePath.resolveNativePath(data, function(result) {
deferred.resolve('file://' + result;);
}, function (error) {
throw new Error("");
});
return deferred.promise;
}
to return the file URI that I needed it.
Then, I installed the apk in the phone, and it works.
Now, I can store an image obtained from the camera or gallery and upload to the server.
There is an error in answer above.
After window.FilePath.resolveNativePath
succeed, its result already has format: file:///...
, so no need to prepend file://
.