[Bug report] getassetpathlist() returns empty results

[asdjfasdfkljdas]

Version

2.5.2

Platforms

dart, Android

Device Model

Various android phones

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How to reproduce?

I've shipped the following code to various android devices (2 tablets, 4 mobile phones).

On 2 of the mobile phones, getAssetPathList() simply returned nothing, an empty list. Works perfect on the other devices.

final PermissionState _ps = await PhotoManager.requestPermissionExtend();
List<AssetPathEntity> albums = await PhotoManager.getAssetPathList();

What I've tried/ruled out before concluding it must be a bug in the lib:

All phones definitely have asset folders (directories with images, e.g. 'Camera')

All phones granted the exact same permission in the exact same way

There are no filters being applied to this call (I removed any filters to attempt to isolate the cause)

No errors are being thrown (I'm logging the count out as soon as this call has successfully returned)

Ruled out any version discrepancies, this is the exact same APK//build

One of the android devices it works on is my up to date brand new mobile phone. The other it works on is a 4 year old android tablet with an out of date OS, so I'm fairly certain it's not an OS-specific issue (could be wrong)

Logs

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Example code (optional)

final PermissionState _ps = await PhotoManager.requestPermissionExtend();
List<AssetPathEntity> albums = await PhotoManager.getAssetPathList();

Contact

dan@stacksoftware.co.uk

[ArjunBhilare]

@asdjfasdfkljdas did you find any solution?

[asdjfasdfkljdas]

@asdjfasdfkljdas did you find any solution?

It was on version 2.5.2. I updated the package to latest (2.6.0) and now it works.

I'm still confused as to why 2.5.2 would be broken though.

[ArjunBhilare]

@asdjfasdfkljdas

Even I have updated to 2.6.0 but

final List paths = await PhotoManager.getAssetPathList() is returning an empty list everytime in my app on Android 13. However if I run the example app it works very well on Android 13. I have added the

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_MEDIA_VIDEO" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_MEDIA_AUDIO" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION" />

to the manifest. Am I missing something?

[asdjfasdfkljdas]

Can you share your code? Remove any filters etc. - reduce your code to the absolute minimum required to prove the issue and I'll take a look.

The only other thing I changed is to request permissions a little differently, here's my full code:

  final permissionStatus = await Permission.storage.status;
    if (permissionStatus.isDenied) {
      var newPermissionStatus = await Permission.storage.request();

      if (newPermissionStatus.isDenied) {
        await openAppSettings();
      } else {
  // Granted
 }
    } else if (permissionStatus.isPermanentlyDenied) {
      await openAppSettings();
    } else {
      // Already granted
    }

      List<AssetPathEntity> albums = await PhotoManager.getAssetPathList();

I'm using the following package for this:

permission_handler: 10.4.1

I don't consider this the solution, since I don't think it worked with this changed, it worked as of the version update. But this is definitely worth a try as it's exactly the same set-up as mine, and mine works now.

If you have a version that works (the example app), and a version that doesn't (yours), the answer lies in whatever the difference is.

I'd take the approach of building up the example app until the problem's reproduced (or vice versa, reduce your own custom app until the problem goes away).

[ArjunBhilare]

I have copied the code from the example app, and made everything the same, still the getAssetPathList returns empty list. Any changes in the Android files that I am missing?

I am using this code in my app https://github.com/phuongtinhbien/album_image/tree/master/lib/src so instead of importing album_image, I manually added the code and in that I want to edit album_image_picker.dart. This works perfectly on Android 12 or below. Any suggestion what could be broken?

[ArjunBhilare]

Solved it!!, I had set the targetSdkVersion to 32, changed it to 33 and it started working

[CaiJingLong]

So, the problem is that the target sdk version is not the 33 or higher?

[AlexV525]

Duplicate of #852