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Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy by izacus on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:48AM (#28797766)
The "new API" has been available since Android 4.4 and was encouraged as default approach because it also worked with cloud storages, Chromebooks and other environment.

Please don't write this misleading stuff, nothing about SAF is new. It's just that it was easier for developers to hardcode paths and crap all over the storage than to open the file dialog.

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Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy by iggldiggl on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:43AM (#28798111)
Using the SAF is quite a bit more complex than simply prompting the user to pick a folder and then using that as your base path, though.

Plus once apps developers were more seriously forced to use the SAF by recent Android versions, I've seen enough bug reports about actual shortcomings and performance problems of the SAF API on the Android bug tracker even for more recent Android versions.

And Google's simultaneous insistence on only allowing inter-app file sharing via content://-URIs has definitively broken all multi-file file formats, with no official replacement available.

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