External Images over http don't load on Android preview

[JamesKF]

Platform

Android 12
Galaxy S20FE

Obsidian Mobile version: v1.0.5

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Description

On Android, embedding external images using http does not work (= no rendering of the image in preview mode) :

![](http://...)

Workaround

Use https links :

![](https://...)

Related feature request

External Images over http don't load on Android preview

Before I go into full bug report, is there an issue with urls that are plain http rather than https? My images are on my server, and I can access them without issue within the Win desktop Obsidian using [image] and it also works within android’s chrome when I type that in the address bar. But none of those images display within Obsidian on my Android device. I searched the topics, but those mentioning urls and mobile are all marked s “archive” or “bug graveyard”, so I assume everything work…

Proposed solution

What @Obbyroll proposed here :

External Images over http don't load on Android preview

Actually, I might have some ideas on why this happens. To be clear still, I’m not programmer nor know any programming/developing things. It’s just my small interest that sometimes I open Android apps’ .apk files and see what’s inside of these. There’s a file called AndroidManifest.xml there which works as the information of your package that declares things like what permission your app use and what components it has etc. Starting from Android 9, using clear text traffic is denied by default, …

[Lise]

@whitenoise, is what Obbyroll explains here the case with Obsidian? Can Obsidian declare a feature flag to re-enable access to http vs https?

[WhiteNoise]

Yes, we will likely introduce this in the next mobile version (version 1.1.1).