ui.resource.image not loading base64 data in native android

[jeeva1803]

while creating a new image(ui.resource.image) using the constructor, it is given in the documentation that the source can be either a url or a base64 encoded uri(url {string} —A URL or a base64 encoded image string.) .
This is working as expected in the browser(tested with both local file path and with base64 encoded image string). But when trying to load the image using a base64 encoded image uri(actually a screen shot of the screen captured using the line( GC.app.__root._ctx.canvas.toDataURL();) it takes the content(base64 encoded image string) as the path to load instead of considering it as data (IN ANDROID DEVICE).
I am also unable to save the screen shot(base64 data) in to local disk as a file.Is there a workaround to load actual data in to image object in NATIVE ANDROID.

[collingreen]

This looks like the same issue as https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/game-closure-devkit/zz_JkSENAWY

Cross posting for reference:

It looks like you need to specify what type of data is being base64 encoded on native. Here is a snippet from the sharing module testapp:

https://github.com/gameclosure/sharing/blob/master/testapp/src/Application.js#L180-L183

    var url = canvas.toDataURL('image/png');
    if (IS_NATIVE) {
      return 'data:image/png;base64,' + url;
    }