i think it will be nice to wait for the next versions of osmand and see what works or not
On Friday, October 8, 2021 at 10:35:30 AM UTC+3 [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/3ec49675-1264-4770-b4af-b2467d2a1732n%40googlegroups.com.
