Now, instead of the regular permissions request to handle the mentioned permission, you need instead to verify whether the access to the external storage is allowed.

Checking permission of MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE The logic of this step is up to you as you may know how to request permissions in your own application. Note that we don't include the MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, because if you request it, when verifying if you have access or not, the mentioned permission will always return denied, even though the user has already granted access: Activit圜ompat.requestPermissions( Request External Storage PermissionsĪfter declaring the permissions, you need to request the regular READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions. Intended to be used by few apps that need to manage files on behalf of the users. The MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission allows an application a broad access to external storage in scoped storage. Modify your AndroidManifest.xml file by requesting the following permissions: Request MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission You can do this in Android following these steps: 1. The permission won't be applied automatically to your app without the user's interaction as the user needs to obligatorily grant access to the files. However, this automatically will put a restriction in your application as Google Play should review if you really need the mentioned permission when trying to publish the application to the Play Store. There's a possibility to access all the files in the device using the new permission. The reason why I faced this problem is because the plugin should allow to select any possible file in the device as it will be used inside a Code Editor application. To protect user privacy, on devices that run Android 11 or higher, the system further restricts your app's access to other apps' private directories.On Android 11, apps can no longer access files in any other app's dedicated, app-specific directory within external storage.This will cause some modifications in which app works since this API as: The Scoped Storage enforcement has been implemented to enhance the platform, giving better protection to your app and user's data on external storage. Since Android 11 (apps targeting SDK Version 30) which is by default the target API of a new Capacitor based applications, there's a new update on the Storage policies of apps. In the last days I've been working on the development of a Capacitor Plugin that allows to launch a native file picker and I faced a new problematic that a lof of android developers seems to be having now.

How to manage external storage for imac