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you-apps / RecordYou

Privacy focused recorder app built with MD3
https://you-apps.net
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Recordings shouldn't be saved in /Android/data #241

Closed mario-g98 closed 4 months ago

mario-g98 commented 6 months ago

It took me some time to find where the recordings went. I saw the option in settings to change the directory, but the default behaviour should be save the files in a directory outside /Android, as in the recent Android versions it is almost impossible to access the files inside. Another point is that I expected the recording to show up in my gallery, but this didn't happen because they were in /Android

I have 2 suggestions:

Edit: I was going to open another issue, but I will add it here:

Give an option to choose separate locations for audio and video, as mixing them in one directory is not ideal.

libreom commented 6 months ago

True, videos should appear in gallery and file manager👍

Bnyro commented 4 months ago

Being able to save files in the internal app data is considered a privacy feature as other apps can't access your private recordings. Recordings can be exported from there, so that's not an issue.

Apart from that you can still manually change the recordings folder.

Concerning having different locations for storing screen and voice recordings - I personally do think that it's sufficient to have one directory for both, but please open a different discussion for that, as it's not related to the issue here.

libreom commented 4 months ago

@Bnyro please add export or share to storage/file option, I don't have any such option other than upload to drive

mario-g98 commented 4 months ago

Correct me if I am wrong, but a voice / screen recorder is a tool and not a privacy oriented app. It is not different than a camera app. Therefore the files generated by it should be easily accessible to other apps.

Bnyro commented 4 months ago

Correct me if I am wrong, but a voice / screen recorder is a tool and not a privacy oriented app. It is not different than a camera app. Therefore the files generated by it should be easily accessible to other apps.

All "You Apps" are privacy oriented, so it doesn't matter what other recorder apps do.

mario-g98 commented 4 months ago

Correct me if I am wrong, but a voice / screen recorder is a tool and not a privacy oriented app. It is not different than a camera app. Therefore the files generated by it should be easily accessible to other apps.

All "You Apps" are privacy oriented, so it doesn't matter what other recorder apps do.

Ok then, I guess I have missed the part that there are many "You Apps" that are privacy oriented :)

libreom commented 4 months ago

Where is the export option?