View online image using ActivityStarter

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DataUri = https://www.lecicosa.co.za/wp-content/uploads/apk/dual_flush_button_for_alyn_df_mechanism.jpg (path to image)
I need an image to show in the phones default viewer.
Attached is the block I am using.
It works fine on the Huawei P8 lite but not on the New P30, so I assume it might be a permissions problem.
Is there more I need to declare for the ActivityStarter or something that needs to be done for the permissions?

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Hi

You probably need Location switched on (a Google thing).

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Warren

That is a very basic requirement - is there a specific reason why you are not using a Web View Component in your App?

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I just need an online image viewed in the default phone image viewer, not in ai2 image.
If you know another way to do it then I’ll try it.

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Right - that could be because one phone’s default image viewer need not be the same as another. Your code works fine on a Samsung S8, Android 9 - I think the Huawei P30 is also Android 9?

Did you switch on Location?

Edit: No, Location is not the answer, works with or without Location set on the Samsung.

However, I changed Data Type to image/jpg instead of image/jpeg

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at first I had image/* and then changed to image/jpeg, will try image/jpg, tx

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still doesn’t work with image/jpg and have turned the location on.
the reason I need the image opened in its default browser is so that the user can zoom in, which they can’t do in the image component

any other ideas?

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use a webviewer to display the image, see this similar example App Inventor Code Snippets | Pura Vida Apps

Taifun

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