[BUG] READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission on Android 13

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Did you read the “Reporting a bug” section on Contributing file?

• I have read the “Reporting a bug” section on Contributing file: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#reporting-a-bug

Current Behavior

The newly added feature FolderPicker is not working properly on Android 13. As of Android 13 (Api 33), it is no longer possible to use READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE. The new permissions are:

• Images and photos: READ_MEDIA_IMAGES
• Videos: READ_MEDIA_VIDEO
• Audio files: READ_MEDIA_AUDIO

As can be seen here Android 13 Behavior Changes,

Expected Behavior

We could just probably check if API is smaller than API 33 and then use READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE otherwise request READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_MEDIA_VIDEO, READ_MEDIA_AUDIO, or from my testing we don’t need to request permission at all since if we want to request folder to which we don’t we have permission this permission will be automatically requested via folder picker.

Steps To Reproduce

Try to run the FilePicker on a device with Android 13 (API 33).

Link to public reproduction project repository

We can just use Sample from https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/tree/main/samples/CommunityToolkit.Maui.Sample itself.

Environment

- .NET MAUI CommunityToolkit: 4.0.0
- OS: Windows 10 Enterprise Build 19044.2486
- .NET MAUI: 7.0.59 Service Release 3

Anything else?

No response

[MichaelStett]

Thank you for this workaround! @zZHorizonZz 😃

[VladislavAntonyuk]

@zZHorizonZz it is not an issue of CommunityToolkit. It’s better to open the issue in .NET MAUI repo on Permissions.RequestAsync API