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The filesystem APIs are moving in a similar direction if I'm not mistaken? Less and less control for developers. It makes me sad, but also gives me hope that th
by anderspitman 7y ago
The filesystem APIs are moving in a similar direction if I'm not mistaken? Less and less control for developers. It makes me sad, but also gives me hope that there might be a legitimate opening for a 3rd mobile OS to enter the market, built around OSS and privacy. Sometimes it's hard to keep the dream alive though. So many attempts have been made.
- greatjack613 7y ago100%, I was one of the many vocal devs on the android bug report who complained about the change of scoped storage. They caved in for the current release, but they are going to force it in android 11. On the bright side I think this will cause android engineers to become more of a specialty as the platform migrates more and more from just another java implementation to a whole new world of apis!
- anderspitman 7y agoThat's a heck of a bright side
- Andrew_nenakhov 7y agoExactly. Ten years ago, Android was a GNU/Linux computer, you could do a lot with it. Now Android is a set of APIs.