[Android] Remove permissions unneeded for recent devices

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Thu Jun 11 09:22:53 CEST 2015


On 11 Jun, XilasZ wrote :
> Le 11 juin 2015 09:08, "Jean-Baptiste Kempf" <jb at videolan.org> a écrit :
> >
> > On 11 Jun, XilasZ wrote :
> > > This does not seems right, vlc doesn't start anymore because it can't
> scan
> > > for medias on the sdcard :(
> >
> > Cannot scan without WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE ?
> >
> 
> I didn't had enough time to confirm it, only that something in the 5 latest
> commit cause vlc to hang at startup.

Does it work if you add READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE?

> >From the description of the permission, after api19, without it you can
> read in app folders only, but not everywhere. So make sense that it's the
> issue.

With my kindest regards,

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