Android Question Something I found

[tkristensen]

I have an app that was working in android 10 and would hang everytime in android 11.

The culprit was this.

Dim mainRP As RuntimePermissions   
mainRP.CheckAndRequest(mainRP.PERMISSION_WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE)
Wait For Activity_PermissionResult (Permission As String, Result As Boolean)
    If Result = False Then
        MsgboxAsync("Cannot continue without write permission", "Exiting...")
        Activity.Finish
        ExitApplication
    End If
Log("Result = " & Result)

In android 10 on galaxy tab a... works fine. Android 11 on galaxy tab a it hangs and stops in the wait for activity call. You get Programname keeps stopping message.

To fix I removed all my legacy access to file.DirExternal and converted it all to file.DirInternal and commented it out. Seems to work on both platforms now.

 

[LucaMs]

To fix I removed all my legacy access to file.DirExternal and converted it all to file.DirInternal and commented it out. Seems to work on both platforms now.

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/chart-flow-to-help-choose-folder.132787/post-838529

 

[agraham]

In android 10 on galaxy tab a... works fine. Android 11 on galaxy tab a it hangs

There is already a lot of information in the forum about these changes

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