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Unnecessary dangerous READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission

  • December 11, 2022
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Hello, the Zendesk Android SDK uses the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. Because it only handles its files and shared photo attachments, would it be possible to instead use https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/photopicker which is supported all the way to 4.4 and doesn't require any dangerous permissions? Thank you

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      Mick11
      • Mick11
      • December 14, 2022

      Hi Michal,

      We took a look at PhotoPicker today following your post, but this library seems to be only for images, wherever the user can upload other document types such as PDF or XLS via the Zendesk SDK. So I don't think that we can use this library. We need to request READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE as we do today.

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