(android) Fix issue #525

[grassick]

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Platforms affected

Android

Motivation and Context

This solves issue https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/issues/525 which is a serious problem.

Closes apache/cordova-plugin-file#525

Description

This implements the fix described in https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/issues/525#issue-1265882820

Testing

I tested locally, pushed to production. Approximately 1000 installs working with no issues.

Checklist

• [ ] I've run the tests to see all new and existing tests pass
• [ ] I added automated test coverage as appropriate for this change
• [ ] Commit is prefixed with (platform) if this change only applies to one platform (e.g. (android))
• [x] If this Pull Request resolves an issue, I linked to the issue in the text above (and used the correct keyword to close issues using keywords)
• [x] I've updated the documentation if necessary

[erisu]

Was this tested against both use cases of using either http/https and file scheme?

[HarelM]

Is there any way for me to help push this forward? I haven't tested this with https, only with "default" capacitor configurations which is http and localhost.

[realtebo]

Please, fix this ASAP, because it's blocking some new projects