Reason for hidden ".downloads" folder?

gsantner / memetastic

Meme Creator for Android - Simple & Ad-Free

https://github.com/gsantner/memetastic#readme

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Reason for hidden ".downloads" folder? #172

Closed ghost closed 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

General information

App version: 1.6.1
System: 5.1.1

Description

MemeTastic app description says that it is fully offline app without any additional downloads functions.

So, for what reason app create hidden folder /sdcard/Pictures/memetastic/.downloads/?

gsantner commented 4 years ago

The app had a feature to download zip with images before temporarly. But decided on not keeping this feature.

For users that have existing downloaded&extracted zip images, I wanted to keep scanning the .downloads folder. In that logic the folder is created if it's not existing.

As filemanagers anyway hide folders with dot usually it's not really a problem, just a empty folder.