[🐛] Permission Denial: reading com.google.android.apps.photos.contentprovider.impl.MediaContentProvider uri

Description

[ Android ] it failed to read content after fetching uri from google photo

Unhandled promise rejection [Error: Permission Denial: reading com.google.android.apps.photos.contentprovider.impl.MediaContentProvider uri content://com.google.android.apps.photos.contentprovider/0/1/content:/media/external/images/media/1259/ORIGINAL/NONE/image/jpeg/1615980699 from pid=20074, uid=10303 requires the provider be exported, or grantUriPermission()]

How to repeat issue and example

• step to reproduce the issue
• open google photo and choose file
• and read file as base64 const base64Content = await RNFetchBlob.fs.readFile( decodeURIComponent(filePath), "base64" );

Solution

Need to inform how to handle ungranted permission

Additional Information

• Image Picker version: [ “react-native-image-picker”: “3.0.0-vnext.4”.]
• React Native version: [ “react-native”: “^0.63.2”.]
• Platform: [Android] buildToolsVersion = “29.0.2” minSdkVersion = 24 compileSdkVersion = 29 targetSdkVersion = 29 supportLibVersion = “28.0.0”
• Development Operating System: [MacOs]
• Dev tools: [vscode]

[ravirajn22]

Latest version returns fileUri for images. I hope the issue is solved, if not reply here or create new issue with details I am happy to fix it.

[stefanoeb]

It seems to be an issue when reading from photos saved in Google Photos. I’ve worked around this problem with a solution that looks like this:

import RNFetchBlob from 'rn-fetch-blob';
// ...
export async function getPathForFirebaseStorage(uri: string) {
  // The reason we have this function is that on android if the file comes from google photos we can't access it directly
  if (Platform.OS === 'ios') {
    return uri;
  }

  if (!uri.includes('content://com.google')) {
    return uri;
  }

  const stat = await RNFetchBlob.fs.stat(uri);
  return stat.path;
}

The function above will receive the path given by the picker and then return a proper path you can read from without any permission error