on iOS, cdvphotolibrary schema should work with WKWebView

[viskin]

WKWebView still does not provide support for custom schemas. See this issue.
This seems to be completely in hands of apache/ionic. Nevertheless, if such support will appear, it will significantly improve performance of cordova-plugin-photo-library on iOS.

[viskin]

Some more resources:
WKWebView and NSURLProtocol not working
WKWebView does not fully support custom NSURLProtocol
NSURLProtocol in WKWebView

[arberkryeziu]

Some news related to this issue https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/wkwebview-v3-0-0/82814

[viskin]

I will try the new v3 version.

[wowmama]

Is there any solution for this issue?

[AndreasGassmann]

@viskin Did you have time to look into this? I am about to upgrade my app to WKWebView and will probably run into this issue.

[jaybloke]

You will definitely run into this problem @AndreasGassmann - I had to revert to the older UIWebView in order to get this plugin to work.

[gnesher]

So if Ionic now bundles WKWebView by default, does that mean Ionic no longer support native interaction with the camera / photo library? That sounds a bit odd

[jaybloke]

It would appear so @gnesher - raised an issue here - ionic-team/cordova-plugin-ionic-webview#54

[gnesher]

@jaybloke thanks, I've also posted a question on their forum / stack overflow.
There does seem to be a work around (https://medium.com/collaborne-engineering/my-cordova-nightmares-accessing-photos-from-the-phones-gallery-7528a0860555) which involves setting up a web server but I'm a wee bit cautious with that ...

[AndreasGassmann]

Has anyone tried this plugin? https://github.com/domax/cordova-plugin-photos I didn't have time to really look into it, but it seems that he is returning the image data and then displaying the blob directly. That should work, but I'm a bit concerned about performance.

[jaybloke]

I share your concern @AndreasGassman - I'm sure this would be find for a handful of images, but if you need to render hundreds of images as blobs, I'm pretty sure performance is going to be terrible.

[AndreasGassmann]

Has anyone made any progress here? With the Ionic v4 beta released I guess a lot of people are getting ready to upgrade, which will probably also include the WKWebView update. So we should try to find a solution soon :)