GitHub user breautek edited a comment on the discussion: How do I open a saved PDF file on my Android device ?
Kind of outside my expertise so I can't really explain how very well. But the `dataDirectory` is app-private. It doesn't mean you can't share the files but other apps can't just read it. There's probably an android intent (which you'll need to find a plugin that exposes an API to use) for sharing files. This is typical for apps that want to have a share button to bring up some UI to let the user select which app they want to share the file with (e.g. email client, the clipboard, facebook, so on....) The external storage partition apps also has slightly more flexibility, where you could store the file inside `Documents` folder but the file plugin cannot write to this directory. Modern Android (API 29+) limits the ability for the File APIs to read/write documents onto the external storage. Instead you must use a Media Store API, which there are also third-party plugins for. Once written to external storage, other apps can use file picking APIs where the user should be able to see and select a file to be opened in another app). Depending on your use case, this might be fine. If you can't find a plugin that exposes file sharing and want to tackle it yourself by creating your own plugin, then https://developer.android.com/training/secure-file-sharing will probably be a start to understand the android API and https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/12.x/guide/hybrid/plugins/index.html for creating a cordova plugin. > or "share" using the physical URL of the generated file To be clear on this, `file://` uris are definitely not shareable, especially if you're using internal storage (like the `dataDirectory`). External storage paths are shareable but the apps will need to have additional permissions, so it's not ideal and likely won't work the way you'd expect. The native way to share files is to produce a `content://` uri for it, which can be shared with other apps. This is generally handled by the intent system. GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/cordova/discussions/510#discussioncomment-11338237 ---- This is an automatically sent email for issues@cordova.apache.org. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: issues-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@cordova.apache.org
