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Re:System Hardening in Android 11 by LeoPanthera on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:23PM (#23693780)
I suppose this will kill multi-emulators like RetroArch. No-longer will they be able to load arbitrary ROMs from a microSD card or other generic storage.
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Re:System Hardening in Android 11 by pjmlp on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @05:50PM (#23695186)
Sure they will, they just have to request a file picker for the user to select the file on their own.
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Re:System Hardening in Android 11 by on_and_off on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @05:31PM (#23695036)
I am not sure they are dead.

I haven't toyed with files in 11 yet but looks like the MediaStore api covers such an use case :

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Med...

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Re:System Hardening in Android 11 by jhamilton on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @06:53PM (#23695740)
Maybe they could do as VLC on iPhone does and raise a little web server that you could then "upload" the roms to, which would then save to a location the app has access to.

Alternatively, download from the web or access files in Google Drive?

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Re:System Hardening in Android 11 by Thorrez on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:26AM (#23698028)
Where do you get that information? I don't see anything in the blog post that would indicate that.
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