On Android API 30, failing to open files

When attempting to build and run on Android 30 emulators, I’m receiving multiple types of errors.

Build script configuration…

        buildToolsVersion = "30.0.3"
        minSdkVersion = 24
        compileSdkVersion = 30
        targetSdkVersion = 30
        playServicesVersion = "17.0.0"
        kotlinVersion = "1.3.72"

When running on an Android 29 emulator, files and docs open fine. When running on an Android 30 emulator, error displayed…

Opening an image…

File reference used file:///data/user/0/com.myapp/files/app/appcore/files/cloud/files/9/1237/temp778200586557997840rn_image_picker_lib_temp_5fed3c4d-0df1-4c4.jpg

Error: No app associated with this mime type
    at index.js:25
    at RCTDeviceEventEmitter.emit (EventEmitter.js:189)
    at MessageQueue.__callFunction (MessageQueue.js:436)
    at MessageQueue.js:111
    at MessageQueue.__guard (MessageQueue.js:384)
    at MessageQueue.callFunctionReturnFlushedQueue (MessageQueue.js:110)
    at debuggerWorker.js:69

File reference used… file:///data/user/0/com.myapp/files/app/appcore/files/cloud/files/9/1236/temp8153285029360235510IMG_20201228_150952.jpg

Error: Failed to find configured root that contains /
    at index.js:25
    at RCTDeviceEventEmitter.emit (EventEmitter.js:189)
    at MessageQueue.__callFunction (MessageQueue.js:436)
    at MessageQueue.js:111
    at MessageQueue.__guard (MessageQueue.js:384)
    at MessageQueue.callFunctionReturnFlushedQueue (MessageQueue.js:110)
    at debuggerWorker.js:69 

While investigating the code it seems to break on showStoreSuggestions returning {NativeMap:{}} resulting in the first error listed.

[StuartCallan]

So I did some more digging, and it appears that from Android 11 (API level 30) they have introduced stricter policy on what packages an app can view on the users device.

It is all explained on the developer documentation here.

All previous versions of Android allowed an app to query all installed packages so this is why we don’t see this issue on lower version. If you would like to mimic that functionality then you can add the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission to your manifest.

It’s more likely that for this library we’d like to use the <queries> approach in the manifest, as we only want to view files. To do this we can add the following in the manifest:

<manifest package="com.example.app">
<queries>
    <intent>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <data android:mimeType="*/*" />
    </intent>
</queries>
...

</manifest>

If you’re using the queries approach and get an error during building, then you’ll probably need to update your version of gradle as mentioned here.

I’ve tested with the queries approach above and the library here is working for my use case of opening a pdf.

The longer term fix would be to add this fix to the Android manifest of this library. I may create a PR if I get around to it.

Hope this helps people!

[snicro]

I see the proposed change was merged on May 27th. If it works, could have a new release that includes it?