Issue with Cordova Platforms : android 7.0.0 about cordova-plugin-openalpr HOT 4 CLOSED

@SonnyCampbell,
Unfortunately our plugin does not work with Cordova Adnroid 7.0.0, you will have to downgrade to Cordova Android 6.3.0 with cordova platform add [email protected].

The way JNI files are being loaded into Android has been changed as of version 7.0.0, which renders our plugin useless since it depends on the OpenALPR JNI files.

We do not have any plans to fix this any time soon. So if you fix this yourself in the meantime feel free to create a new Pull Request.

Kind regards,
Melvin

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Are you sure this is an error related to our plugin? I can't find any error which relate to a plugin file.

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Edit: Forgot to mention, this was on version 1 ->

I was able to get this plugin working with android 7+ by using multiple plugins, the idea is to get the image, use a plugin to save it from base64 to file, here the app will request file permisisons, and you can then pass the file path to openalpr plugin.

To save the image from base64 I'm using: cordova plugin add https://github.com/tate-u/Canvas2ImagePlugin.git and modify the Canvas2ImagePlugin.js with this:

module.exports = {

    saveImageDataToLibrary: function (success, failure, canvas) {
        var defaults = { canvas: null, fileName: "IMG_" + new Date().getTime(), album: 'Apps', success: function () { }, failure: function () { } };
        var settings = Object.assign({}, defaults);
        
        var imageData = canvas.replace(/data:image\/jpeg;base64,/, '');
        return cordova.exec(success, failure, "Canvas2ImagePlugin", "saveImageDataToLibrary", [imageData, settings.fileName, settings.album]);
    }
};

Then use it like this:

window.canvas2ImagePlugin.saveImageDataToLibrary(
    function(msg){
     cordova.plugins.OpenALPR.scan(msg) ...
    },
    function(error) {},
    base64ImageData
);

Hope this helps.

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Could you possibly give some indication of what's involved in making this plugin compatible with Android 7+?

Is it a case of altering the plugin.xml and placing files in different target folders etc. or is there far more to it than that?

Any advice is much appreciated.

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