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File upload on android for JavaScript app
2016-08-04

Disclaimer: I had to implement this solution because of some imperatives (coder life…), but this is not good programming practice. Hopefully Android 5 will let us do it properly.

I have a web application that shares the code on desktop, iOS and Android.

Everything works fine, except that Android does not support <input type="file"> in WebView out of the box. While iOS will happily show an image picker if the accept attributes is set to image types, Android’s WebView will just do nothing.

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