Android 13 – READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE_PERMISSION still usable

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According to documentation (https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/media#storage-permission):

No permissions needed if you only access your own media files
On devices that run Android 10 or higher, you don’t need any storage-related permissions to access and modify media files that your app owns, including files in the Media Store. Downloads collection. If you’re developing a camera app, for example, you don’t need to request storage-related permissions because your app owns the images that you’re writing to the media store.

From android 10 you can not to ask permissions to get files from storage. Works perfectly with all kinds of files (pdf, excel…) on my app on android 13 without any permissions.
So you just need to ask READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission for SDK, less than android 10.

But if you need special files (for example which was created by Instagram app but not stored in usual storage) you should ask for permission from your list.

Also look for types of Media storage:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/MediaStore

About WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE – you don`t need it since sdkVersion=29

EDIT: Was rewriting my app and want to add something:

It depends on what your app needs to do, but I have removed all kinds of storage permissions (only WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE left for SDK less than 29) from my app, and just use ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT, ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE to have access for all kind of files (but not for system folders, ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE also have no access for download folder).

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