ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT ERROR ANDROID

[iamgraeme]

Facing a very bizarre issue and have searched the web all day looking for a solution, there seems to be an issue with the permissions or something, running android 13.

ext {
googlePlayServicesIidVersion = "17.0.0"
buildToolsVersion = "30.0.2"
minSdkVersion = 21
compileSdkVersion = 33
targetSdkVersion = 33
ndkVersion = "21.4.7075529"
}

**
[storage/unknown] Permission
Denial: reading com.google.and roid.apps.docs.storagebackend.
StorageBackendContentProvider ur content://com.google.android.apps.docs.storage/document /acc=1;doc=encoded=f9h3OMI GHAUUAHHAIUhhsjsjsuu282892hhssjj== from pid=4351, uid=10157 requires that vou obtain access using ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT or related APIs
**

This particular error showed when the file was picked from google storage but the same error is happening when I pick the same file from the file system storage.

Tried converting it using both RnFetchBlob and react-native-fs

Anyone have any ideas?

[holmesworcester]

We have a similar problem, and adding WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, and MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE to AndroidManifest did not work. We also added android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true" (though it should not work anymore according to docs.)

Did you find a solution?

[brunoleitem]

Did anyone find a solution in that?

[Irfan-S]

This error showed up due to me using react-native-pdf where I was accessing the wrong file URI. Instead of using the fileCopyURI, I was using fileURI and that threw this error.

[kanika-webosmotic]

In case you are facing this issue while using react-native-document-picker, Try adding " copyTo: 'cachesDirectory'" to parameter and use copyFileUri instead of uri. Below is an example of usage

const res = await DocumentPicker.pick({
allowMultiSelection: true,
type: [DocumentPicker.types.pdf],
copyTo: 'cachesDirectory'
});
const fileUrl = res.map((file) => file.fileCopyUri);
console.log({ fileUrl });

[vonovak]

Hello,
To pick documents using ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT please refer to the open mode: https://react-native-documents.github.io/docs/sponsor-only/picker/open-mode

Otherwise you need to use import mode together with keepLocalCopy: https://react-native-documents.github.io/docs/sponsor-only/picker/import-mode#keepLocalCopy

Hope this helps 🙂