Android manifest changes not updated

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Hello everybody!

I’m very new with ionic, but I’m coming from cordova and react. So I tried to recreate a simple app with ionic-react. I now want to read a directory structure and manage files. I added the required permissions in the android manifest file. Problem is: in visual studio, using the ionic extension for debugging, the console says the permissions are not set and to add them in the manifest. ??? What’s more, the application running on a real device does not ask for any permission as it used to do with cordova. I’m running an android 6, so everything should be granted/asked from the manifest file, not at use time…

Any idea why the AndroidManifest.xml file seems to be ignored?

Thanks for your help!

Here the test code:

import { Filesystem, Directory, Encoding } from '@capacitor/filesystem';
import { AndroidPermissions } from '@awesome-cordova-plugins/android-permissions/ngx';


export async function readDirectory(): Promise<string[]> {

    const toto = new AndroidPermissions();

    toto.checkPermission(toto.PERMISSION.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE).then((result) => console.log("READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE", result)).catch(err => console.error(err));
    toto.checkPermission(toto.PERMISSION.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE).then((result) => console.log("WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE", result)).catch(err => console.error(err));

    toto.requestPermissions([toto.PERMISSION.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, toto.PERMISSION.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE]).then(async () => {
        const content = await Filesystem.readdir({
            path: "Downloads",
            directory: Directory.ExternalStorage
        });
        console.log(content);
    });


    return [];
}

The ‘checkPermission’ result are ‘hasPermission’ However, the ‘readdir’ failed.

2

What plugin are you using to read directory? You need to provide code example and try to recreate your issue in order for anyone to help.

3

Thanks. I updated my post.

4

You may have forgotten to add some lines of code to the AndroidManifest.xml file. Since your using the @capacitor/filesystem, you need to add these lines:

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

More info can be found in the docs.