lucasferreira / react-native-send-intent

React Native Android module to use Android's Intent actions for send text to shareable apps or make phone calls or opening third party apps
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Update openFileChooser to work on apps with requestLegacyExternalStorage disabled #141

Closed benlondon closed 3 years ago

benlondon commented 3 years ago

Android apps targeting Android 11 (API level 30) can no longer use the requestLegacyExternalStorage attribute. This impacts apps that want to open a file chooser with a fileUrl directed at a file within the app's own storage. Explicit permission needs to be granted to the Action View Intent through the Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION flag.

This article gives a good explanation on this flag and how it should be used.

The code below would not work for an app with requestLegacyExternalStorage disabled prior to this PR.

SendIntentAndroid.openFileChooser(
      {
        fileUrl: '/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.example.app/files/Download/example.pdf',
        type: 'application/pdf'
      },
      'Open File with:',
    );
lucasferreira commented 3 years ago

Thanks @benlondon ;)