Cordova Android Camera- giving illegal argument exception

Question

I started cordova Android programming 2 month back. Everything was fine mainly camera that is not working now. But last week some how my project directory got deleted and I reinstall all plugin of cordova and complied project but now its showing error 'illegal argument exception' on camera click surprising thing is i didn't change single line of code and it's also working properly on other developer machine.

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-camera command used from camera plugin installation.

camera_app.js file

var pictureSource; // picture source
var destinationType; // sets the format of returned value


// Wait for device API libraries to load
//
document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);

// device APIs are available
//
function onDeviceReady() {
    pictureSource = navigator.camera.PictureSourceType;
    destinationType = navigator.camera.DestinationType;

}


// Called when a photo is successfully retrieved
//
function onPhotoURISuccess(imageURI) {
    // largeImage.src = imageURI;
    console.log(imageURI);
    console.log(document_type);


}

function getPhoto(docType) {
    // Retrieve image file location from specified source
    document_type = docType
    $('.docError').hide();
    navigator.camera.getPicture(onPhotoURISuccess, onFail, {
        quality: 50,
        destinationType: destinationType.FILE_URI
    });
}


$('#file1').click(function() {
    console.log('On camera click');
    getPhoto("addressProof");
});

I tried to debug code finally found it's due to provider path- java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Missing android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS meta-data

but I have already added provider path meta data in Android xml file, as its automatically gets added when you add cordova plugin.

 <provider android:authorities="${applicationId}.provider" android:exported="false" android:grantUriPermissions="true" android:name="android.support.v4.content.FileProvider">
            <meta-data android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS" android:resource="@xml/provider_paths" />
        </provider>

cordova plugin -

cordova-plugin-app-version 0.1.9 "AppVersion" cordova-plugin-camera 2.4.1 "Camera" cordova-plugin-compat 1.1.0 "Compat" cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.3.2 "Whitelist" cordova-sqlite-storage 1.4.9 "Cordova sqlite storage plugin" ionic-plugin-keyboard 2.2.1 "Keyboard"

cordova platform-

Installed platforms: android 6.2.3 Available platforms: blackberry10 ~3.8.0 (deprecated) browser ~4.1.0 webos ~3.7.0 windows ~5.0.0

NPM version- { npm: '3.10.3', ares: '1.10.1-DEV', http_parser: '2.7.0', icu: '57.1', modules: '48', node: '6.4.0', openssl: '1.0.2h', uv: '1.9.1', v8: '5.0.71.60', zlib: '1.2.8' }

Answer 1

It was very simple and basic. Just add your file provider below to your cordova launcher activity. In my case I was having some custom activity and by mistake provider was added at bottom of all activity and my guess is cordova not able to read that provider that's why it was giving java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Missing android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS meta-data