Getting Permission Denial Exception

Question

I have an activity in my app that allows the user to select several files from the device one by one, I am using an intent like this:

Intent intent = new Int         


        

Answer 1

When control and data is returned to your activity in

protected void onActivityResult(int reqCode, int resultCode, Intent data)

your activity, at the same time, is given permissions to access the image url in the passed intent. Your activity will be able to read the url in the intent and display the image. But you wont be able to pass any permissions on to other activities or to a new thread of execution. That is why you are getting the SecurityException for android.permission.MANAGE_DOCUMENTS.

One way to avoid your permission issue, is just to get the data in the activity that has permissions. In your case, from the activity that has permission do your encoding

InputStream is = getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);
byte[] inputData = getBytes(is);
is.close();
String encoded = Base64.encodeToString(inputData, Base64.DEFAULT);

Once you have your encoded string you can pass it to any other activities that might need it, or you can pass it to an AsyncTask to be sent elsewhere.