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Jake
Jake

Reputation: 16837

Android - take picture - pass uri to camera app

I am trying to follow this tutorial to invoke the camera app and ask it to save a picture at the uri passed in the intent.

 File image = File.createTempFile("testImage", ".jpg",
              getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES));

 Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(image);

 Intent i = new Intent();
 i.setAction(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
 i.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, uri);

 if (i.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null) {
      startActivityForResult(i, 1);
 }

The path of the image is :

 /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.android.test1.app/files/Pictures/testImage-516714791.jpg

I want to ask that how did the camera app have permission to write to this path ? I am testing on Android 4.4, so the path ExternalFilesDir is not publicly writable.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 595

Answers (1)

Alex Cohn
Alex Cohn

Reputation: 57163

The reference says:

There is no security enforced with these files. For example, any application holding WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE can write to these files.

Starting in KITKAT, no permissions are required to read or write to the returned path; it's always accessible to the calling app. This only applies to paths generated for package name of the calling application. To access paths belonging to other packages, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and/or READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE are required.

So, system Camera app, or any other app which is granted WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission can write to /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.android.test1.app/files/Pictures/.

Upvotes: 2

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