[image_picker] No longer able to select photos from Google Photos

Steps to Reproduce

My Android device has updated to use the new Photo Picker (https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/photopicker)

I used to be able to view and select images from my google photos app or anywhere else, but now I'm only able to select an image that have been taken with this phone.

Expected results:
I expect to be able to still select an image from somewhere else on my device.

Actual results:
I can only select a photo from Photos or Albums. Albums only has Camera, Screenshots, and Downloads.

Code sample

    final imagePicker = ImagePicker();
    final XFile? pickedFile = await imagePicker.pickImage(
      source: ImageSource.gallery,
      requestFullMetadata: false,
    );

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@DanMossa

Hi @DanMossa, I believe this is a limitation of the new Photo Picker on android 13 and not an issue with the plugin. I can't seem to find any API from the new picker that would allow that. Are you aware of any such API?

@danagbemava-nc

I appreciate the quick response! @danagbemava-nc
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the Android APIs. But I've been looking around and I'm wondering if any of these links help?

https://developers.google.com/drive/picker/reference
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/264952941

EDIT: I've noticed that when using an older image_picker, the issue doesn't happen.
Works when my pubspec.lock shows

  image_picker:
    dependency: "direct main"
    description:
      name: image_picker
      sha256: f98d76672d309c8b7030c323b3394669e122d52b307d2bbd8d06bd70f5b2aabe
      url: "https://pub.dev"
    source: hosted
    version: "0.8.6+1"
  image_picker_android:
    dependency: transitive
    description:
      name: image_picker_android
      sha256: b1cbfec0f5aef427a18eb573f5445af8c9c568626bf3388553e40c263d3f7368
      url: "https://pub.dev"
    source: hosted
    version: "0.8.5+5"

I was able to confirm that this issue happens once my pubspec.lock shows

  image_picker:
    dependency: "direct main"
    description:
      name: image_picker
      sha256: "715d68a53d6bcc2eae26005097dc74c375a04c0d7c0e657da84deebbbbbf51ed"
      url: "https://pub.dev"
    source: hosted
    version: "0.8.6+4"
  image_picker_android:
    dependency: transitive
    description:
      name: image_picker_android
      sha256: "845f793834d5d3af887ce39e3c97186996928cd43c8350a23e5499268398cc16"
      url: "https://pub.dev"
    source: hosted
    version: "0.8.5+8"

This indicates that the issue comes from image_picker. Or at the least, this package shouldn't change that functionality until the Photo Picker is more mature.

I have the same issue. The app I'm developing used to present a view (via image_picker) that allowed me to choose images from either Drive or Google Photos, for the logged-in Google account. However, I made a bunch of changes to dependencies, and now suddenly when I rebuilt the app, the photo picker view only shows the following options:

I have no idea which change disabled the ability of image_picker to pick photos in Drive or Google Photos, but this is a major step back from the old functionality.

In my case, downgrading the dependency version from 0.8.6+3 to 0.8.6+1 did not solve the problem (and in fact I checked, and the version was 0.8.6+3 both before and after the file picker broke).

At this point I have no idea how to restore the old behavior. Something changed in the project, and I have no idea what.

In my case, downgrading the dependency version from 0.8.6+3 to 0.8.6+1 did not solve the problem (and in fact I checked, and the version was 0.8.6+3 both before and after the file picker broke).

At this point I have no idea how to restore the old behavior. Something changed in the project, and I have no idea what.

Downgrading the dependency didn't actually help me either. I had to go into my pubspec.lock and revert the changes there. :/

@DanMossa

@DanMossa Thanks, that worked for me too. (Now I finally understand what pubspec.lock does :-D )

So this is indeed breakage in some recent version of image_picker.

The UI when things are working, for comparison:

@lukehutch

So this is indeed breakage in some recent versions of image_picker.

Hi @lukehutch, technically, this is not a breakage. The plugin was recently updated to use the more privacy-focused photo picker of android 13 to fulfill the request in #104250. So you could say this is the correct behavior of the photo picker.

This is the PR in question flutter/packages#3267.

@DanMossa, since this is the intended behavior of the new photo picker API and will likely be the behavior going forward(according to https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/264952941#comment4), would it help if we documented that on newer versions of android users may not be able to access external image providers?

@lukehutch

So this is indeed breakage in some recent versions of image_picker.

Hi @lukehutch, technically, this is not a breakage. The plugin was recently updated to use the more privacy-focused photo picker of android 13 to fulfill the request in #104250. So you could say this is the correct behavior of the photo picker.

This is the PR in question flutter/packages#3267.

@DanMossa, since this is the intended behavior of the new photo picker API and will likely be the behavior going forward(according to https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/264952941#comment4), would it help if we documented that on newer versions of android users may not be able to access external image providers?

Yeah! I think it would be helpful to put in the changelog or something that this changes functionally until the photopicker implements an API to select external image providers.

In an ideal world this would be a major version change.

Thanks for raising this issue.

We're going to add a config option to decide which version of the picker you would like to use while we wait for the cloud features to be added to the new image picker.

This will default to the old version, so you shouldn't need to change anything to get this feature back.

How exactly does the new dialog improve privacy, especially if it is going to add back in the cloud features?

+1 on making this configurable.

In my case, downgrading the dependency version from 0.8.6+3 to 0.8.6+1 did not solve the problem

This is because the change is in image_picker_android (specifically 0.8.5+7 of that package), not image_picker. That's what you'd need to temporarily pin if you want to avoid the change for now.

This thread has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity after it was closed. If you are still experiencing a similar issue, please open a new bug, including the output of flutter doctor -v and a minimal reproduction of the issue.

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