Addressing Android SDK 29 Deprecations

[phil-flyclops]

Android SDK 29 deprecated a series of filesystem access methods that leads to access permission errors even when a user grants permission to access system Storage.

Two of these are used by this library
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Environment.html#getExternalStorageDirectory()
and
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Environment.html#getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(java.lang.String)

They recommend using the following as an alternative
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#getExternalFilesDir(java.lang.String)

I wanted to reach out to get guidance on if and how I could go about upgrading the library to be compliant as I'm more experienced as a React developer with somewhat minimal Android development experience

[DaddyRaegen]

Add the following line inside the tag of your manifest file.
android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true"
(For those inexperienced, the path to the Manifest is $PATH_TO_PROJECT/android/app/src/main)

For reference, follow this link.

[phil-flyclops]

Sweet, thanks for the heads up

[guofoo]

Does anyone have any updates on this issue?

I've tried adding the line to Manifest file but it still doesn't work.
<application android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true" ... />

The referenced link above says the policy may not be respected due to policy or backwards compatibility reasons. So at least on my Redmi phone running Android 10, it is still not working.

[renielsalvador]

Any alternative solution for requestLegacyExternalStorage? Our app wont be approved if we keep having this in our AndroidManifest. Thanks

[guofoo]

Referencing all related issues to #998