Dart/Flutter cannot parse content:// URIs natively

[bagintz]

I may be missing something, but while I am successfully getting the Content URI (i.e. content://com.google.android.apps.photos.contentprovider/0/1/content%3A%2F%2Fmedia%2Fexternal%2Fimages%2Fmedia%2F41076/LARGE/JPG/1337981437), I am unable to actually retrieve the file in Flutter due to this issue:

flutter/flutter#25659

Does this sound right?

[KasemJaffer]

Please use this library to get the absolute path that will work with the dart class File

https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_absolute_path

[KasemJaffer]

dart/flutter does not support android content uri yet as far as my knowledge

[bagintz]

Right, but this library returns, in flutter, the content uri through the message channel. So we get the image uri, but we can't do anything about it. Unless I am missing something this makes the plugin unusable for sharing images. Right?

[KasemJaffer]

Unfortunately yes, or at least with this library alone. I forgot to mention this in the documentation. My plan is to make this library return the absolute path instead of a reference uri. In the meantime, please use this library in conjunction with the library i mention above.

[KasemJaffer]

I am open to pull requests if anyone is interested.

[KasemJaffer]

The api now returns a path that can directly be used with File.dart

[bagintz]

Awesome work @KasemJaffer Thank you!!