Current features question

Hi there. I maintain an app that relies on the MediaPlugin quite heavily. Since support ceased for this plugin it’s been a bit difficult, so I was keen to find out what your project here is doing and what plans you might have for future features. I see that you’re also contributing back to Xamarin Essentials which is great.

Does your project currently - or will it in the future - support:

• Saving metadata with a photo similar to what the old MediaPlugin did with SaveMetaData = true? For my use case, I’m specifically interested in saving EXIF GPS data within a photo.
• Dealing with the more granular iOS photo permissions for 14+ (i.e. “Select Photos…”, “Allow access to all photos” and “Don’t allow”) - the old MediaPlugin doesn’t properly support the newer “Select Photos…” option.
• Gracefully handling Android gallery apps that only allow a single photo to be picked (e.g. the Samsung Gallery app, last I checked) when selectionLimit is > 1?

These features are pretty central to our app and hacking the MediaPlugin code for myself isn’t feeling like a viable long term solution. So I’d be keen to try and help out here if I can, with this kind of stuff.

[dimonovdd]

Please create two issues to support UWP and .net Standard 2.0

[gaelian]

@dimonovdd OK thanks for the info. I’ll do some testing and get back to you.