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veniosg / Dir

A modern File Manager for Android
http://veniosg.github.io/Dir
Apache License 2.0
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What's your plan for Android Q? #128

Closed staltz closed 5 years ago

staltz commented 5 years ago

Hello fellow FOSS developer, I build the Manyverse app which is also on F-Droid.

Have you heard of Google's schedule to deprecate shared external directories? See this article.

Your app uses Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() which Google is [deprecating in API level 29](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Environment#getExternalStorageDirectory()).

https://github.com/veniosg/Dir/blob/4c7f2799fadd9663b5ae7b35e8381725325e6610/app/src/main/java/com/veniosg/dir/android/activity/FileManagerActivity.java#L103

I think this is terrible news from Google, and I'd like to use getExternalStorageDirectory() too. This change in Android Q will affect all File Managers and significantly change the UX and possible features for users. I would like to know if you have any ideas what could be done.

veniosg commented 5 years ago

There are no plans to target that android version so unfortunately I haven't thought of a workaround that might work. You might want to take a look at the Scoped Directory Access APIs, I'd be surprised if there is no way to replicate the behaviour you need using that.