GitHub user breautek added a comment to the discussion: Persistent storage
API 29 is kinda special. I am kinda surprised that it reports a permission denied error though still, but I'll explain what is probably occurring. First, `requestLegacyExternalStorage` is only honoured if you're targeting API 29 or lower. Starting with API 30, it is forcefully enabled and that setting is ignored. This means `requestLegacyExternalStorage` is not usable if you plan on deploying to the Google Play store. The flag was introduced when SAF (Scoped Access Framework) was introduced in API 29. But at that time you could opt out of SAF and get the old API 28 and earlier behaviour on API 29 to give developers a good amount of time to test and make changes to their applications. It was always documented that the setting will be ignored in a future target SDK, which that occurred on API 30+. Under SAF, you're expected to use the [MediaStore](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/MediaStore) APIs to access the external filesystem (that is the `/storage/emulated/...` path and/or `/sdcard/...` path) and Android disabled access to these paths with the `File` APIs (which is why `cordova-plugin-file` uses). Specifically on API 29, using the Java File APIs to access the external storage is not possible. In API 30, they introduced something called [FUSE](https://source.android.com/docs/core/storage/scoped#using-scoped-storage-with-fuse) which enabled file APIs once again, although with several limitations. Because API 29 devices lacks FUSE, it might be why you're unable to list or explore the contents of `/storage/emulated/...` even in the file explorer. If you're using a `Google Play` image for your emulator, you might want to try the AOSP image instead which would have more relaxed security policies allowing you to be able to test easier. If that does work, it does indicate the ability to explore the content on retail devices will be limited. GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/cordova/discussions/497#discussioncomment-10761743 ---- This is an automatically sent email for issues@cordova.apache.org. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: issues-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@cordova.apache.org
