cordova - Meteor Android app doesn't display external images -

i have meteor app app.accessrule("*") (for testing purposes). built ios version has no problem accessing external images, while android 1 can't.

i've tried various app.accessrule variations i've found posts i've seen it's linked that. no avail.

accessing web app, browser on phone works fine, compiled version doesn't.

external paths vary google images ex cloudinary public urls ex.

any ideas?