Storage permission Issue on Android after updating to API 33

[JeetuChoudhary]

Current behavior:

After updating the app to target Android API 33. When I try to download an image, it shows the Storage Request dialog stating to allow the app to access files on your device.

I have tried to request permission again for Android API 33 as you mentioned in the documentation and it doesn't open any permission dialog and shows following message in logs:

Requesting permission for android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Requesting permissions

Notifying listeners for event pause

No listeners found for event pause

App paused

Unable to find a Capacitor plugin to handle permission requestCode, trying Cordova plugins 0

Expected behavior:

It should download and store images on the phone after clicking on the download button.

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Environment information

• Ionic CLI: 7.1.1
• Ionic Framework: @ionic/angular 7.2.0
• @angular/cli: 16.1.0
• @ionic/angular-toolkit: 9.0.0

Capacitor:

• Capacitor CLI : 5.2.2
• @capacitor/android : 5.2.2
• @capacitor/core : 5.2.2
• @capacitor/ios : 5.2.2

System:

• NodeJS : v18.10.0
• npm : 8.19.2

• Target Android SDK version
  • 33
• Plugin Version
  • "cordova.plugins.diagnostic": "^7.1.2"

[Lakshman1996]

It is happening same to us after updating to 33. https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/issues/577 Also seems related

[dpa99c]

Android 13 / API 33 removes WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE/READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions and replaces them with READ_MEDIA permissions (see here) So requesting EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission when build SDK >= 33 will have no effect. Instead request READ_MEDIA, e.g.

cordova.plugins.diagnostic.requestRuntimePermission(function(status){
    console.log("Permission: " + status);
}, function(error){
    console.error("The following error occurred: "+error);
}, cordova.plugins.diagnostic.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES);