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Marcel Kinard commented on CB-5294:
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This is not a bug in Cordova. It is a bug in the Chromium webview, and Google
needs to fix it. According to
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=278640 it appears the bug
might be fixed in Chromium 33, whereas Android 4.4 currently has Chromium 30.
It is unclear when Android 4.4 will get updated to Chromium 33, and how it will
get it (Android system update or an app/component self-update). See
https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/webview/overview#will_the_new_webview_auto-update
. To suggest that this would happen in the next 3 months is a wild uninformed
guess. (No winking implied, seriously.)
I don't think this issue is specific to any Cordova versions. It is specific to
Android 4.4, and probably occurs on all Cordova versions that run there.
> File input element not opening file picker in Android 4.4
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>
> Key: CB-5294
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5294
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Android
> Affects Versions: 3.1.0
> Environment: Android 4.4 (emulator and Nexus 5)
> Reporter: Paul Kane
> Assignee: Joe Bowser
>
> The file input field doesn't respond when clicked/tapped in Android 4.4.
> Works fine in previous Android versions. This is regardless of whether the
> Target Level is set to 18 or 19.
> To reproduce, I created a fresh Cordova 3.1.0 project for Android. The only
> modification I made to the default (placeholder) index.html file was adding a
> <form> element with a single <input type="file"> element inside. Clicking the
> "Choose File" button does nothing. No Logcat output or errors. Normally at
> this point a dialogue would open allowing me to select an image from the
> gallery or take a picture, which is what happens in older Android versions.
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