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I suppose this will kill multi-emulators like RetroArch. No-longer will they be able to load arbitrary ROMs from a microSD card or other generic storage.
by LeoPanthera 6y ago
I suppose this will kill multi-emulators like RetroArch. No-longer will they be able to load arbitrary ROMs from a microSD card or other generic storage.
- on_and_off 6y agoI am not sure they are dead. I haven't toyed with files in 11 yet but looks like the MediaStore api covers such an use case : https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/MediaStore.Files https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Med...
- pjmlp 6y agoSure they will, they just have to request a file picker for the user to select the file on their own.
- jhamilton 6y agoMaybe they could do as VLC on iPhone does and raise a little web server that you could then "upload" the roms to, which would then save to a location the app has access to. Alternatively, download from the web or access files in Google Drive?
- Thorrez 6y agoWhere do you get that information? I don't see anything in the blog post that would indicate that.