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IzhidoVR
New Participant
October 9, 2021

Access to /sdcard/Download folder from native code

Do you guys have any examples of working code that is able to access the /sdcard/Download folder from a Quest/Quest 2 device? There is not much info out there; you find contradictory statements about apps being already able to do it *or* apps requiring READ/WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions *or* using specialized Android APIs.

 

Has anyone managed to access data from there using their own code, that would like to share here?

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      Anonymous
      October 10, 2021

      The Oculus system software is based of Android 10, and I think Android has gotten stricter about application permissions. I would take a look at what's required to do the same thing in Android 10. I believe it requires an explicit permission request from the application (not just a key in the manifest).

      jpattatelara
      New Participant
      February 1, 2023

      Regarding this issue - we found (in Unreal 4.23) we had to add the following to the application tag in the application manifest:

      android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true"

       

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