feat: android save picked media to local folder from media store

[massimoliani]

Plugin(s)

• Android Foreground Service
• Android Battery Optimization
• App Update
• Background Task
• Badge
• Cloudinary
• Datetime Picker
• File Compressor
• File Opener
• File Picker
• Managed Configurations
• NFC
• Photo Editor
• Printer
• Screen Orientation

Current problem

I'm working on an app uploading videos to the cloud and like whatsapp we would like to store locally the picked medias by the user to be able to restore anytime a broken upload.
Right now on iOS the picked files is inside a local app folder (the cache) I move to documents folder and is fine and fast.
On android the content:/.... path can't be copied to local folder and reading it in chunk of base64 and store is too slow.
As we need to process with video compressor that accept only device path I can't use an URL of the blob.
Could be possible to have the same feature of iOS on android, when user pick media the media is put. on a local cache folder?

Preferred solution

Like iOS if is possible to store che picked file to local cache folder of the app.

Alternative options

Find a plugin able to copy from content to local folder.

Additional context

Related to ionic-team/capacitor-plugins#2087

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[milanmarcinco]

We are facing the same issue.

Additional context:

• This feature is already implemented on iOS.
• Both Filesystem.copy(...) (to permanently store a file so it can be accessed later) and Filesystem.stat(...) crash when content:// URI is passed.

[robingenz]

I will take another look at the issue in the next few weeks (after my vacation). I might add a temporary copyFile(...) method or something similar.

[massimoliani]

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[j6s]

I hope your vacation was enjoyable - is there any news / progress on this issue?

[robingenz]

@ebarooni Please try to reproduce this issue. If you can reproduce this issue, try to add a copyFile(...) method that can handle content:// URIs and allows the user to copy a picked file into the local cache folder.

[robingenz]

Here is a dev version for testing that adds a new copyFile(...) method:

npm i https://pkg.pr.new/capawesome-team/capacitor-plugins/@capawesome/capacitor-file-picker@514

Example:

import { FilePicker } from '@capawesome/capacitor-file-picker';

const 
const { files } = await FilePicker.pickFiles();
const firstFile = files[0];
if (!firstFile || !firstFile.path) {
  return;
}
const { uri } = await Filesystem.getUri({
  directory: Directory.Cache,
  path: firstFile.name,
});
await FilePicker.copyFile({
  from: firstFile.path,
  to: uri,
});

I would be grateful for any feedback.