Unable to sync @capacitor/file-viewer

[drakedeatonuk]

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 7.2.0
  @capacitor/android: 7.2.0
  @capacitor/core: 7.2.0
  @capacitor/ios: 7.2.0

Platform(s)

ios

Current Behavior

When i run npx cap sync, all other 30 capacitor libs we use are synced, but the new file-viewer doesn't sync.

✔ Copying web assets from www to ios/App/App/public in 306.94ms
✔ Creating capacitor.config.json in ios/App/App in 1.26ms
✔ copy ios in 429.38ms
✔ Updating iOS plugins in 4.81ms
✔ Updating iOS native dependencies with pod install in 9.38s
...

This means that when trying to use the methods within the webbview, I get a "Error: "FileViewer" plugin is not implemented on ios".

Expected Behavior

I would've expected that running sync should've synced this library too.

[OS-pedrogustavobilro]

Hey @drakedeatonuk, thanks for opening this issue. I'm not able to reproduce it on my end though, running

npm install @capacitor/file-viewer
npx cap sync

I'm able to sync the project in both platforms and use the plugin without issues.

Is the sync working only on iOS, or on Android as well?

[fabiomartino]

I faced a similar issue when trying to build my Ionic 8 + Capacitor 7 app for iOS. The problem was caused by a version mismatch between IONFileViewerLib in my Podfile.lock (1.0.0) and the version required by @capacitor/file-viewer (which now depends on ~> 1.0.1).

I was able to resolve it by running the following command inside the ios/App folder:

pod update IONFileViewerLib --verbose

That updated the pod to the correct version and the build succeeded afterwards.
Hope this helps others facing the same issue!

[drakedeatonuk]

The builds and syncs for ios and android succeed for me, but the @capacitor/file-viewer isn't added to podfile or capacitor.build.grade. I can add/remove other plugins just fine...

I can't recall ever seeing a plugin fail to be added to the project after a successful sync... Any other ideas?

These are all the plugins/versions we're using...

"capacitor-file-chunk": "0.3.0",
"@capacitor-community/advertising-id": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor-community/contacts": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor-community/file-opener": "^7.0.1",
"@capacitor-community/stripe": "^7.0.1",
"@capacitor-firebase/messaging": "^7.1.0",
"@capacitor/android": "^7.1.0",
"@capacitor/app": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/app-launcher": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/assets": "^3.0.5",
"@capacitor/browser": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/camera": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/cli": "^7.1.0",
"@capacitor/clipboard": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/core": "^7.1.0",
"@capacitor/device": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/dialog": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/file-viewer": "1.0.0",
"@capacitor/filesystem": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/geolocation": "7.0.0",
"@capacitor/haptics": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/ios": "^7.1.0",
"@capacitor/keyboard": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/local-notifications": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/network": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/screen-orientation": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/share": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/splash-screen": "^7.0.0",
"@capacitor/status-bar": "^7.0.0",
"@capawesome/capacitor-app-update": "^7.0.1",
"@capawesome/capacitor-badge": "^7.0.1",
"@capawesome/capacitor-file-picker": "^7.0.1",
"@capawesome/capacitor-live-update": "^7.1.0",
"@capgo/capacitor-updater": "^7.0.28",
"capacitor-branch-deep-links": "^8.4.0",
"capacitor-file-chunk": "^2.0.0",
"capacitor-native-settings": "^7.0.1",
"capacitor-set-version": "^2.2.0",
"@sentry/capacitor": "^1.2.0",

[OS-pedrogustavobilro]

Are you able to share a repo to reproduce this issue? I can't reproduce it on my end with any app.