Error: package android.support.v4.content does not exist

Capacitor
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Hey everyone,
Currently I am using the ionic file plugin in capacitor. When I want to build this app I keep getting the following errors:

error: package android.support.v4.content does not exist
public class FileProvider extends android.support.v4.content.FileProvider {}

Can anyone help me?

2

Capacitor 2.x uses AndroidX so I guess any plugin that uses the older Android support libraries won’t work.

Which plugin are you using exactly? The Ionic Native one? Are you aware that there’s a Filesystem API that comes with Capacitor?

3

Hi! Same error, when I try to build for Android with Ionic Package:

/android/capacitor-cordova-android-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/cordova/camera/CameraLauncher.java:40: error: package android.support.v4.content does not exist
import android.support.v4.content.FileProvider;

I saw it’s because Camera plugin uses AndroidX, but I am not able to find how to fix the issue! :frowning:

What should I do?
Thanks!

4

I use “jetifier” for this on building my node_modules. To rebuild I remove the node_modules directory then run “npm i” to reinstall and jetifer will run after its complete and fixes those references.

Then in my package.json:

"scripts": {
    "ng": "ng",
    "start": "ng serve",
    "build": "ng build",
    "lint": "ng lint",
    "postinstall": "jetifier"
  }
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I solved the following with

npm install -D jetifier

package.json ( changes )
change line
“build”: “ng build”
change to
“build”: “npx jetifier && ng build”

NOTE:
“postinstall”:“npx jetifier”
DOES NOT WORK IN APPFLOW ATM ( 10/23/2020 )

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