Android returns HEIF formated images, ignores encodingType

[grumpygary]

Bug Report

Problem

Android returns HEIF formatted images (ignores encodingType)

On a

• Pixel6,
• Android 13,
• Cordova 12
• Camera Plugin v 7.0.0
• { encodingType : Camera.EncodingType.JPEG }
• getPicture() returns images in HEIF format (both FILE_URI and DATAURL) in HEIF format
• HTML IMG cannot load HEIF format images

What is expected to happen?

• getCamera should respect encodingType JPEG and return JPEG image

What does actually happen?

Images returned in HEIF format, HTML img.src = "" fails (calls error handler with 'unsupported format')

• same for both mediaTypes

Information

• Pixel6,
• Android 13,
• Cordova 12
• Camera Plugin v 7.0.0
• { encodingType : Camera.EncodingType.JPEG }
• getPicture() returns images in HEIF format (both FILE_URI and DATAURL) in HEIF format
• HTML IMG cannot load HEIF format images

Command or Code

await

Environment, Platform, Device

Version information

Cordova: 12.0.0
cordova-android: 12.0.1
Camera 7.0.0
CLI build tools
Android 13 (Pixel 6)

Checklist

• [x ] I searched for existing GitHub issues
• [x ] I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
• [x ] I included all the necessary information above

[grumpygary]

Two more things:

These are photos, not videos

Appears to work sometimes for local pictures (on the device), but not when downloading from Google Photos (the user wouldn't know the difference).

[jlsync]

Photos uploaded to Google Photos from an iPhone would typically have the HEIC format.

For DATA_URL instead of returning a base64 data: url, the plugin is returning a URI that looks like like..

content://media/picker get_content/0/com.google.android.apps.photos.cloud picker/media/..........