native.showPopup (Social) not working on Android 6 ( Marshmallow )

[Marcos_Martini]

@rob

First, we don’t officially support Android 6 yet. Our engineers are working on figuring out all of the Android 6 issues.  There are permissioning changes where permissions are not pulled from build.settings but are asked for on demand. It’s likely you could be running into this.

Can you put together a small sample that doesn’t work? Put it in a .zip file (include main.lua, build.settings and config.lua) and use the Report a Bug feature at the top of the page. That way Engineering can make sure this gets updated as we roll out Android 6 support.

Rob

Hi Rob, 

I am reporting a bug with the zip file but I just want to say that I figured out what is going on. On my app, I use display.save() to save a screenshot of a group object so the user can share that image later. The problem is that with the latest Android update, my app can’t share any image that is located in a directory other than the resources directory. So if I save a screenshot in documents, cache or temporary directory, my app crashes the app used to share, for example, crashes gmail if I try to send that image by email. Sending bug report now. Thanks

[rob]

Please post the Bug ID # back here (it was in the email that confirmed your submission).

Rob

[Marcos_Martini]

Bug ID #43267

Thanks!

[Ajay_McCaleb]

Hi everyone,

This issue has been fixed. The fix is actually in the Corona core, not the social plugin. This issue was actually a specific case of a more general issue related to sharing data between apps.

Anyway, the fix is available in build 2756.

[Marcos_Martini]

Thanks Ajay!