STORAGE ISSUES WITH DROIDSCRIPT

[Samuel Victor]

Good day fam,

I'm currently working on a DroidScript app to meet a deadline for a client. I'm facing an issue with storage. In DroidScript as an spk it works just fine. When compiled to APK, the app also works on my android 8 phone, but when I tried it with an android 11 phone , the storage issues came up.

I created a server in the app to host locally and unfortunately, due to storage issues - the index.html displayed 404- not found. Please any help would be highly appreciated, as I'm struggling to meet the deadline 

Best Regards

[Cemal]

How do you serve the index.html file? If you are extracting to a user's folder, you may have a Scoped Storage issue.

[Alan Hendry]

HI, 

As Cemal indicates, scoped storage was introduced in Android 11.

It would probably help if you posted a few lines if code

showing where the index.html starts, where it is copied to (if copied),

the address it is served from.

Regards, ah

[Cemal]

Someone emailed me and said it was a good idea to use a Private Folder.

// Create a hidden folder that only the app can access:

const serveFolder = app.GetPrivateFolder("serve")

// Extract the files from the folder you added to the APK and add them to the private folder.

app.ExtractAssets("[html project folder name]", serveFolder, true)

With app.IsNewVerison(), it makes more sense to extract only when the application is first installed and updated.

(Thanks to Kelechi Ekezie)

[Alan Hendry]

HI, 

I'd probably try to break it down

Check if initial file exists

Extract Assets

Check if extracted file exists

Check if file exists just before trying to serve it

I presume you've seen the examples in the docs

Regards, ah

[Alan Hendry]

HI,

There are 2 examples in the docs

(extracting a file and a folder).

Depending on scoped storage 

you may need to use a different destination

(and whether you want the user to be able to see the file(s).

Regards, ah