What's your plan for Android Q?

[staltz]

Hello fellow FOSS developer, I build the Manyverse app which is also on F-Droid.

Have you heard of Google's schedule to deprecate shared external directories? See this article.

Your app uses Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() which Google is deprecating in API level 29.

filemanager/FileManager/src/org/openintents/filemanager/FileManagerActivity.java

Line 122 in d432d84

args.putString(FileManagerIntents.EXTRA_DIR_PATH, Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals(Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED) ? Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() : "/");

I think this is terrible news from Google, and I'd like to use getExternalStorageDirectory() too. This change in Android Q will affect all File Managers and significantly change the UX and possible features for users. I would like to know if you have any ideas what could be done.

[friedger]

@staltz Probably the only solution is to ask the user for the root uri through the StorageAccessFramework.

[marcoscgdev]

A temporary fix could be adding this flag into the manifest:

android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true"