Is this Image Picker Plugin no longer maintained?

[Mr-Anonymous]

I noticed that there been a lot of opened issues and no updates for couple of years now. Does it mean this plugin is no longer maintained and should be considered as dead?

I have installed this plugin and it works fine in iOS so far. However I noticed in Android the App crashes without asking for permission. I noticed there are so many issues created here already on this topic and a lot of people have created Forked version of this plugin for that issue. Therefore I have installed the Telerik-Verified-Plugins/ImagePicker fork version to resolve this issue. My concern is:

1. This plugin has various issues especially with Android 6, 7, ios 11, etc and it has not been maintained for a long time.

2. Most of the fork versions are unmaintained as well now-a-days.

This is such an important plugin and I am just curious, what do users use? Is it still safe to install this plugin or the forked versions? Is there another more reliable fork for this Multiple Image Picker plugin?

[TDola]

Avoid, it's completely dead in Cordova Android 7. It will actually wreck your platform install if you try to use it.
If you did accidentally use it.
Delete your plugins folder
Delete your platforms/android folder
Remove the plugin from config.xml
run cordova platform add android@latest

[rlindgren]

@TDola What are you using successfully instead?

[TDola]

@rlindgren At this moment I was forced to revert to the standard gallery picker in the cordova camera plugin.
I am watching these
https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/ImagePicker
https://github.com/DmcSDK/cordova-plugin-mediaPicker

The first is a fork of this plugin and is being slowly maintained. But with 72 issues open including ones like this Telerik-Verified-Plugins#134 I am not enthused.

The second is making excellent strides, but is only maintained by 1 developer https://github.com/DmcSDK/cordova-plugin-mediaPicker/graphs/contributors, and his hands are tied on google integration because he lives in China DmcSDK/cordova-plugin-mediaPicker#20. He does appear to be actively improving the plugin, it is one to watch. If more developers join in and start issuing pull requests, it could make huge progress fast.

So considering the fork looks almost dead too, and the best replacement is in early development, I went back to the cordova plugin and decided to wait it out to see who wins.

[rlindgren]

Thanks @TDola! I'm watching the media picker plugin now as well. It definitely looks promising. I agree with you that such a straightforward issue as the Telerik plugin.xml update for cordova-android 7 not being resolved almost immediately is concerning...

[Mr-Anonymous]

I have been using Media Picker Plugin too for 4 months now. Yes, its maintained by a single developer but he is doing a good job at it. He is quick in answering issues posted and rolling out updates and fixes for it which shows its on active development. The theme looks good too in Android and it also supports iOS now. Like @TDola mentioned, some extra features such as google integration is difficult for the developer since he cannot access google from China. But other than that, the plugin does its job well and I find it a good replacement for this imagepicker plugin for my needs. I have been using it in my production app for a few months now and its going well.

[TDola]

I wanted to update that mediaPicker is still being actively maintained and now supports the newest xcode modal windows.
https://github.com/DmcSDK/cordova-plugin-mediaPicker
I have officially switched to it for production and have had minimal, if any issues.