Strage Error on Android

[pivanov]

Hey guys I had the following:

import AssetUtils from 'expo-asset-utils'
...
const filename = screenshot-${i}.png
const asset = await AssetUtils.fromUriAsync(uri, filename)
...
the uri is content://media/external/images/media/27

the error I receive is:
[Error: unexpected url: content://media/external/images/media/27]

Any ideas? It works fine on iOS

[marcmoo]

very the same issue, work on iOS but not work on android

[EvanBacon]

Noticed lot's of weirdness with file loading on android in React Native. I'm investigating now

[Lidanha]

Hey is there a workaround for this?

[EvanBacon]

I can look at it this week. In RN we use the fetch API to load files. For whatever reason loading binary files in Android doesn't work, I don't think it's related to this issue. You also cannot save a b64 and get a localURI cuz RN.ImageStore isn't supported on Android 😱 point being that android has a bunch of file system features missing 😩 Expo.FileSystem could potentially solve these issues, I would just have to add some native code. Tried last week but we were doing a bunch of refactoring. But always on my mind 😁

[Lidanha]

Thanks, I really appreciate your support. My team is really stuck.. 😢 We can't use expo-pixi because it uses expo-asset-utils that has this issue.

[Lidanha]

Hey @EvanBacon,

Any news about this issue?

Thanks

[jlongshore]

Same issue with Android - needing to use expo-pixi in the same manner as @Lidanha

[EvanBacon]

expo/expo#2328 able to be fixed in SDK31