I want to request a photo from the user using the system photo picker (i.e. with a PickVisualMedia request), then send another Intent for a photo editor to crop the photo. If I just send the URI received from the photo picker with the intent, Google Photos shows “Error, could not load media” and quits. Other photo editors I have either show a similar warning or just crash.

I added this code to my books app to recognize foldable devices (deleted unrelevant code).
On OnePlus and Oppo devices (not foldable) the app crashes.
It happens only in Android OS bigger than 13.

I am using the latest Android studio build (of 2023.3.1.) I’m trying to include the following package:

I am using CameraX to take photos and want their base64 value. And for that, I want a JPEG base64 string but when I went to view it, it is corrupt and can only be viewed/decoded back to image after I repair it in some online service. Not sure what I am doing wrong: