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> For those scenarios, structured storage fits the bill. The app requests folder permission and the user, using system UIs, grants permissions on the folders th
by GTP 1y ago
> For those scenarios, structured storage fits the bill. The app requests folder permission and the user, using system UIs, grants permissions on the folders they want to enable.
I see your point, but why isn't this the case for document management apps? Also, Nextcloud can be extended with plugins, some of them falling in the document management category.
> Further saying "let the user decide" works great in theory and with a considered, rational userbase.
Nextcloud is mostly used by people that like to self-host their services, so in this case we fall into the rational userbase category.
- Arnt 1y agoIt is what e.g. Simple Gallery does. It works well. Nice API. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.gallery.pro https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobi... or on github.
- GTP 1y agoWhat are you referring to? Looking at that link, I see little overlap with what Nextcloud offers. There's a lot more in it than just a pretty gallery.
- Arnt 1y agoThe overlap is precisely that part which matters: The directory access portions. Both need to ask the user to choose which directories to access, and access all the files in those directories. What they do after opening the files is very different, and irrelevant. FWIW I use both Nextcloud and that gallery app.
- deng 1y agoFYI: The Simple Mobile Tools suite was acquired by an ad network and is pretty much discontinued, see https://www.androidauthority.com/simple-mobile-tools-acquisition-3391041/ https://www.androidauthority.com/simple-mobile-tools-acquisi... Use the Fossify fork instead: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fossify.gallery https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fossify.ga...
- Arnt 1y agoIt seems I escaped, by paying the original developer €1 a long time ago. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.gallery.pro https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobi...