GitHub user breautek added a comment to the discussion: List subfolders and files of a folder (with SAF), Android 13+
> could i achieve this with the cordova-plugin-file (under Android API 34)? Kind of, but not completely. The main piece that is missing for your use case I think is the open document intent implementation. That's the system that provides the user the document view so that they can select a file. The file plugin can resolve `content://` paths and read from them, but using the file plugin itself, there is no way to obtain `content://` paths. It also doesn't request permissions. When you use that system dialog so that the user can select content, the system will grant your app temporary read access to that file which expires when your app's activity closes. This means that the `content://` paths are only temporarily accessible so they cannot be persistently stored. So if you need permanent access to that content, that content needs to be copied to your app's storage data. There is also a bug that prevents `content://` paths to produce DOM-usable urls so that content resources can be used in `<img>` tags or other HTML media elements. There is a PR proposal to fix this issue via https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/pull/629 though. I've been looking into making other Apache plugins like the camera and media-capture plugins return `content://` paths instead of a `file://` path which has a number of advantages. So I've been doing quite a bit testing on using `content://` paths in the file plugin and most of it works today, assuming that: 1. You're just trying to do read operations on the content 2. You've obtained the `content://` path freshly in a way that the OS will give you read access to that content 3. Using the FileReader APIs should work, or using the `copyTo` API to copy to app's local data storage should also work. So in otherwords today, if your SAF plugin can provide you a `content://` path with read access granted, the file plugin should be able to be used to read or copy that data. The only thing that won't work is trying to produce a DOM-usable URL which requires the https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/pull/629 fix. GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/cordova/discussions/494#discussioncomment-10614276 ---- 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
