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Android doesn't have a file picker. I can't open Random App and open a file from the internal storage or cloud providers. I'm not saying Windows RT is perfect
by MatthewPhillips 14y ago
Android doesn't have a file picker. I can't open Random App and open a file from the internal storage or cloud providers.
I'm not saying Windows RT is perfect or even that good, I'm just saying that this one particular thing, they got right.
- josteink 14y agoAndroid doesn't have a file picker. Maybe stock doesn't, but install any file-manager from market, and voila you have just that.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoFile managers aren't file pickers. 3rd party apps do not integrate with them.
- josteink 14y agoThat is where you are wrong. Just like gallery-app can be a file picker, so can a file manager be. Like cm's file manager is. Or it can be something else entirely, like a dropbox frontend. You've just got to have a little bit more imagination ;) In Android, 3rd parties don't need to integrate, the OS does it for them via intents. That's the number one thing which makes the OS so flexible and exciting.