[@nativescript/imagepicker]: Migrate to Android photo picker

[asharghi]

This is the warning im getting on every playstore release now:

"If your app has a one-time or infrequent need to access photos and videos, migrate to the Android photo picker"

[tujlaky]

The deadline is January 22 2025 for this migration. Any idea how can we fix this easily?

[tujlaky]

Here it the original blog post about this change from Android:

https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/permissionless-is-the-future-of-storage-on-android-3fbceeb3d70a

[felixkrautschuk]

I gave it a short try to show this newer Android PhotoPicker, but as I have not much experience in native Android app development, I am not familiar with the newer "registerForActivityResult" approach.

I was already failing during the first step of creating the imageLauncher.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: LifecycleOwner com.tns.NativeScriptActivity@8d1df04 is attempting to register while current state is RESUMED. LifecycleOwners must call register before they are STARTED

So I tried to move that into the activityCreatedEvent

//app.js
if(application.android) {
    application.android.on(application.AndroidApplication.activityCreatedEvent, function (args) {
        const pickImageLauncher = args.activity.registerForActivityResult(
                new androidx.activity.result.contract.ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia(),
                new androidx.activity.result.ActivityResultCallback({
                    onActivityResult: function(uri) {
                        alert(uri);
                    }
                })
        );

        //just show the PhotoPicker directly after some delay
        setTimeout(() => {
            pickImageLauncher.launch(args.activity, new androidx.activity.result.PickVisualMediaRequest.Builder()
                .setMediaType(androidx.activity.result.contract.ActivityResultContracts.PickVisualMedia.ImageOnly.INSTANCE)
                .build());
        }, 5000);
    });
}

But this crashes with the following message:

java.lang.Exception: Failed resolving method launch on class androidx.activity.result.ActivityResultRegistry$3

Actually registerForActivityResult should return an instance of ActivityResultLauncher, but for some reason I get an instance of ActivityResultRegistry

Maybe somebody with more experience in Android development can help out here.

[asharghi]

@triniwiz Is this something you want to tackle?

[BriceFab]

I'm still experiencing the same issue and haven't found an alternative solution or any open PR addressing this fix.
Any updates on this?

[asharghi]

I have just written a short explanation in the description form seen in the screenshot. Haven't been a problem and not getting any warnings for now, but this plugin should definitely be migrated to the new api