mozilla-mobile/android-components

Cannot share images using Direct Share

Mugurell opened this issue · 4 comments

Mugurell commented

When trying to share images using Android's Direct Share feature - https://developer.android.com/codelabs/android-direct-share the action fails with

Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: opening provider mozilla.components.feature.downloads.provider.FileProvider from ProcessRecord{d075e90 23628:com.Slack/u0a227} (pid=23628, uid=10227) that is not exported from UID 10188

with potentially leaving the app in a bad state - saw that trying to share to Google Drive will result in an errors loop from which I could only get out by force closing the app.

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Bubu commented

Thanks for opening the correspinding issue for this :).

cketti commented

My suggestion is to use ShareCompat.IntentBuilder from AndroidX Core. It contains code to work around this particular issue and will be updated in case future issues are identified.

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Bubu commented

That sounds like a good idea for future refactoring, I won't have time to do work on that in the near future, so I'd leave that to the project maintainers.

Mugurell commented

Using ShareCompat.IntentBuilder seems like a welcome improvement.
@cketti Can you open a new ticket for this? I can also help with this.

@Bubu's fix resolves the problem for now so we'll land this in the meantime.