can't read my files from the legacy path on android 10

[lucas-samuel01]

Hi everyone !

I'm having some truble with my app for my android 10 users, the problem is that I can't read my files from the legacy path only in the andorid 10 devices. They already had images downloaded and I need to access them, anyone knows how can I do that ? I also can write files normally but I can't read any of them, and I have all the permissions. But everytime that I try to read the files I get the following message: "Attempt to get length of null array"

Permissions in my Android manifest

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES" />

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"
  android:maxSdkVersion="29" />

version of installed library: 0.19.2 react-native version: 0.72.4

My gradle ext: buildToolsVersion = "33.0.0" minSdkVersion = 21 compileSdkVersion = 33 targetSdkVersion = 33 ndkVersion = "23.1.7779620"

  function readPNGByDir() {
    try {
      RNFetchBlob.fs.ls(`${RNFetchBlob.fs.dirs.LegacyDownloadDir}/PNG`).then(async (files) => {
        for (const file of files) {
          console.log("my files", file)
        }
      })
    } catch (e) {
      console.log('read png error', e)
    }
  }

[RonRadtke]

If you're still targeting android 10 try to request the kegacy storage

Which value do you get for the path?

https://medium.com/mindful-engineering/scoped-storage-in-android-d52460630d6a

[vlack-coder]

@RonRadtke I get the path correctly but when I try to write to the path, I get permission denied error and I've tried the suggested flag in the article you shared. My Android version is 10 and API is 29 Thanks android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true"

[vlack-coder]

@RonRadtke no worries, I've solved it so instead of using the LegacyDownloadDir API, I used dirs.DownloadDir and copied to the media store.. Thanks