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Gallery wants to open Google Video Player

  • /e/ version:0.9-2020072865179
  • Device model: FP3
  • When it started to occur: don't know, at least in the previous version it was already there
  • Reproducible with the last /e/ version: yes
  • Reproducible with LineageOS: don't know

Summary

When one takes a video with Camera and taps it in Gallery, the phone asks whether it should open it in Google Video Player or another app. The remarkable thing is not that it offers to open the Video in OpenTracks (which is strange, anyway) but that it offers Google Video Player on a degoogled phone.
  • The device is unusable
  • The bug is the source of a data loss or a big waste of time
  • The bug concerns a third-party application
  • The bug concerns security
  • The bug concerns privacy

The problem

Steps to reproduce

1. Have Open Tracks installed (from f-droid)

  1. Take a video with Camera

  2. Go to Gallery and tap the video

What is the current behavior?

The Gallery asks whether it should open the video in the Google Video Player or in Open Tracks

What is the expected correct behavior?

Video should be opened in a video player which is not from Google

Technical informations

Relevant screenshots

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Solutions

Workaround

Possible fixes