Others geoapp LocusMaps OruxMaps Vespucci.... put data out of Android
directory with no problems.
Why Osmand puts data inside Android dir?
Danilo


Il Mer 8 Dic 2021, 22:42 [email protected] <[email protected]> ha
scritto:

>
>
> On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 8:58:03 AM UTC+1 micha***il.com wrote:
>
>> Total Commander, x-plore, Solid Explorer can do it. Fully on INT SD,
>> reading on EXT SD private folders of any app.
>> Why? They applied for permission MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE. Seems yours did
>> not.
>> The makers of OSMand did not even try to apply for this permission and go
>> into the discussion with Google why this is needed for geo apps, too. I do
>> not claim that would be easy, but they could have started this process
>> early.
>>
>>
>>
> My Total Commander app can not access the "special" directories even if I
> granted it all possible permissions.
>
> If I go on SD Cards, I can not see anything under /Android/data but for
> the folder of Total Commander itself.
>
> If I go to the Internal memory what I can see under /android /data is the
> folder of Total Commander and a special one which appears under the name
> of  "-> Installed up" (starting with two characters forming an arrow)
>
> If the last one is selected a pop up screen comes up with instructions,
> but even if I follow them or if I try all possible things, I can get no way
> to write or even read in any subdirectories
>
> It should be better if such a discussion would be also copied/moved to the
> Android support forum (where I can not write at the moment because some
> moderators choose to block me because I politely point out that this new
> system would have risen a lot of problems).
>
> In another message it was written
> >> They applied for permission MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
> Is it a thing that a developer just select or it a thing that Google has
> to grant to just the developers the choose to?
>
> P.S. I fond some information on this page
> https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/manage-all-files
> However I can read
> Write access to all internal storage directories⁠, except for
> /Android/data/, /sdcard/Android, and most subdirectories of
> /sdcard/Android. This write access includes direct file path
> <https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/media#direct-file-paths>
> access.
>
> So even with this permission the app would not be able to access
> directories under /Android/data (but it could access the directories in
> other part of the SD card)
>
> AnyFile
>
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