react-native-storage-permissions

Introduction

Package to ask for MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission, when need to access all files in an android phone in React Native, this is the only way to access and Manage All files in Android 11 (API level 30) or higher.

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-storage-permissions --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-storage-permissions

Manual installation

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

• Add import com.secullum.RNStoragePermissionsPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNStoragePermissionsPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

include ':react-native-storage-permissions'
project(':react-native-storage-permissions').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-storage-permissions/android')

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

    compile project(':react-native-storage-permissions')

Usage

import RNStoragePermissions from 'react-native-storage-permissions';

const hasStoragePermissions = await RNStoragePermissions.checkStoragePermissionsAsync();

const result = await RNStoragePermissions.requestStoragePermissionsAsync();