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I think this is how Android works now, and has for a few years. It is crazy that it wasn't always this way, though. Apps in the past could choose to request acc

I think this is how Android works now, and has for a few years. It is crazy that it wasn't always this way, though. Apps in the past could choose to request access to all your photos just to let you pick; but now I think that will get you removed from the Play Store (maybe?) since the official way in Android is now the way you describe.

kllrnohj 6y ago
It was always this way. Intent.ACTION_PICK is API level 1: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent#ACTION_PICK https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Inte... But when you can integrate the picking into your app and avoid trying to learn a zero-permission approach because users just hit OK at install time anyway... why bother? And thus back in the day very little things used this, because there was very little reason to avoid just requesting every possible permission.