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lmj0011 / save-on-device

Android app that allows you to save a file shared from another app to your device.
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Older Android versions #3

Closed zekooooo closed 2 years ago

zekooooo commented 2 years ago

Hi, I love the premise of your app! Using the regular "Downloads" app on my phone requires me to unblock System in my firewall, so I've had to make a workaround in Termux. It would be really nice to have a trustworthy FOSS app to save files. Unfortunately I'm still running Android 7.0. Is there any chance of getting this to work on an older version than 9? I would be really grateful!

lmj0011 commented 2 years ago

@zekooooo

Do you mind laying out a specific use case for someone using Android 7? I personally only use this app for copying audio files from the Recorder app into my Downloads directory (I'm running on Android 12) so I'm unaware of any use cases outside of this particular one.

For example what app are you using where you would need to use this app to download something into the Downloads directory.

Knowing this will help me in testing, after lowering the minimum SDK requirement.

zekooooo commented 2 years ago

I use Firefox Klar 8 and it apparently can't save files on its own so I share them to Termux where I have a script that wget's the url.

lmj0011 commented 2 years ago

I use Firefox Klar 8 and it apparently can't save files on its own so I share them to Termux where I have a script that wget's the url.

Just to clarify, Is the use case: you download something from the web using FF Klar and it doesn't go into the Downloads folder?

@zekooooo

lmj0011 commented 2 years ago

I tried replicating your issue on FF Klar 8 and on the latest version of FF Klar. A file I downloaded went into the Downloads folder (emulated Nexus 4, running Android 7), if your phone is causing this issue it's possible this app won't work either.

https://github.com/lmj0011/save-on-device/releases/tag/v0.2