Gmail 5.0 app fails with “Permission denied for the attachment” when it receives ACTION_SEND intent

Question

My app creates mails with attachments, and uses an intent with Intent.ACTION_SEND to launch a mail app.

It works with all the mail apps I tested with, e

Answer 1

I was able to pass a screenshot .jpeg file from my app to GMail 5.0 through an Intent. The key was in this answer.

Everything I have from @natasky 's code is nearly identical but instead, I have the file's directory as

context.getExternalCacheDir();

Which "represents the external storage directory where you should save cache files" (documentation)