Unable to load image when selected from the gallery on Android 4.4 (KitKat) using PhoneGap Camera Plugin

Question

I\'m trying to set the source of an img tag in my app based on the image chosen from the device image gallery using the PhoneGap/Cordova Camera Plugin.

It has worked

Answer 1

Something broke in Android 4.4 with the URI encoding of images.

A bug has been filed against Cordova here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5398

In the docs for getPicture, under the Android Quicks section, it discusses this problem and points to a StackOverflow question with a workaround (edit the Camera plugin java code to force it to open the Gallery app instead of the Storage Access Framework app.)

It seems another thing you could do is set the destination type to DATA_URL.