Very much agree. And this is true for ANY geo app, BTW. And I would appreciate if the app providers would not sheepishly bow to Google's slaughter, but rather fight, i.e. make their valid argument to get an exception granted for those kind of apps. Still the users would need to accept access to extra folders outside /Android/data, so there would not be any security issue. In particular as people you deal with OSMand, Locus, Orux and alike are not those Instagram only type of folks :-) Cheers Michael
On Friday, 8 October 2021 at 09:35:30 UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: > On Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 9:22:30 PM UTC+2 lodr***ail.com wrote: > >> on the post 3, we can read that only one option will be not possible to >> work any more from the osmand app, because of the new policy from google. >> it is the next folder >> /storage/emulated/0/osmand >> >> > Thanks for your answer. Sometime a direct confirmation is better than an > indirect inference. > > >> we still can select from osmand settings this folder >> /storage/emulated/0/android/data/ >> it is the best choice for me. Last 3.5 years into my device from andoid 7 >> up to 10, i had no issue >> >> > Unfortunately, due to Google policy change, if you have Android 11 (or > above), the last directory you quote > /storage/emulated/0/android/data/ > will not be an useful choice. If you use this directory (or any > subdirecotories or /storage/emulated/0/android/obb or the equivalent two > directories of these two on the SD card) you would not be able to access > the contents in any ways but from the inside of the app. This would make it > more difficult (or impossible) to edit or change files, moves gpx files or > audio/picture/video notes and so on. > > For this reason it will be important (and actually it is already important > in Android 11) that we can be able to select an arbitrary directory outside > these "special" directories (I wrote "special" and not special because at > file system level they are not declare anything special at all and the > system already has a lot of special directories at his disposal than are > not even reachable by the user. Having changed a normal directory to a > "special" is just asking for troubles. At least they could have kept > ..../android/data as it was and created a .../android/data-locked ) > > AnyFile > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OsmAnd" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/35484086-e2ea-4071-ae3d-50a34bf583e7n%40googlegroups.com.
