Make AndroidCamera compatible with android API >= 24 #649
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This should finally fix #500 .
On modern android versions, the only way use the
ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE
intent is to use fileproviders, and somehow we need to tellplyer
which fileprovider authority to use. I don't think there is a general mechanism to configure per-platform settings in plyer, so in the PR I adopted for the following API:This works as long as
filename
has a proper configured fileprovider, which is not possible with the currentp4a
version.The easiest way is to use kivy/python-for-android#1922.
I also published a fully working example which combines this PR, kivy/python-for-android#1922 and kivy/buildozer#1369:
https://github.com/antocuni/plyer_camera_example