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minus-squareDubious_Fart@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down17·1 year agoOkay, whoop. Let me fucking download my files to where I want to on mobile, goddamnit.
minus-squareeco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 year agoAndroid has locked down free access to storage in recent versions. Blame Google.
minus-squaredeweydecibel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoThat’s 100% Google’s fault. Firefox has no control on over this, Android prevents apps from accessing the full file system now.
minus-squarevalpackett@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoThere’s no need to access the full file system to download to wherever the user wants. In fact the user might not want to use the local file system, but instead a “cloud” storage provider app! The Storage Access Framework is built precisely for this.
Okay, whoop.
Let me fucking download my files to where I want to on mobile, goddamnit.
Android has locked down free access to storage in recent versions. Blame Google.
That’s 100% Google’s fault. Firefox has no control on over this, Android prevents apps from accessing the full file system now.
There’s no need to access the full file system to download to wherever the user wants. In fact the user might not want to use the local file system, but instead a “cloud” storage provider app!
The Storage Access Framework is built precisely for this.