> From what I've gathered, getting access to a single user-picked file via SAF isn't too painful, but for browsing a whole directory tree it's more annoying hav

> From what I've gathered, getting access to a single user-picked file via SAF isn't too painful, but for browsing a whole directory tree it's more annoying having to use a completely new API for that That pretty much matches my experience. Single file picker flows can often be implemented with a simple callback. But for folders it falls apart. Thanks for mentioning scoped storage. Maybe that provides some sort of solution. I vaguely remember when I was first dealing with this circa 2021 that they had some sort of a low-performance solution that was supposed to work for NDK code.