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Kotlin Programming By Example
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Kotlin Programming By Example

by Iyanu Adelekan
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
12h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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Getting external storage permission

The READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions must be acquired by your application before it can make use of external storage APIs. READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE is necessary when you only need to read from external storage. The WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission is necessary when your application requires the ability to write directly to external storage.

These two permissions can be added with ease to the manifest file, as we have seen in previous chapters:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" /><uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

It should be noted that WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE implicitly includes READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE ...

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ISBN: 9781788474542