Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by wlesieutre on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:25AM (#36530836)

If apps are still handling files that way instead of being able to open documents from anywhere in your local files, iCloud Drive, it’s on the developer. Hasn’t been the case for years that this is the way files work, you should be able to save them to your Downloads folder (or elsewhere) and open them in whichever app you want.

Give PDF Viewer a look if you want better file handling: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-viewer-annotation-expert/i...

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by behnamoh on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:32AM (#36530879)

That further proves my point about iOS/iPadOS's limitations. Why can't files be handled like on Linux/Windows/Android/macOS/etc. without having to use iCloud?

Edit: Goodnotes and Notability also have this annoyance.

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by dwaite on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:39AM (#36530931)

You don't have to use iCloud. You can use local storage, or any cloud provider, or SMB/CIFS.

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by abwizz on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:17AM (#36532595)

would also be nice if webdav could just be mounted. i mean caldav and carddav are supported in base os, whats the problem?

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by graftak on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:45AM (#36532739)

I recall it being supported up until iOS 14 or 15 too, for some reason they just decided to remove it.

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by wlesieutre on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:02AM (#36535085)

I don't know about WebDAV but it does let you mount SMB shares.

If you need WebDAV I think Documents by Readdle will do it, and maybe even makes the share available to other apps though its File Provider. But I'm not sure what parts of Documents are subscription based now since I have a paid copy from before it went subscription.

It even has the option to keep a local copy of folders from network shares so you can use them offline, which is a pretty handy feature if you're working with large files or don't have a cellular iPad.

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by abwizz on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @08:02AM (#36585528)

i'm using documents in free mode for some time, might be worth it if it can really transparently make webdav available to other apps.

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by piva00 on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:38AM (#36531313)

You don't need iCloud, in the Files app you explicitly have "iCloud Drive" and "On My <device_type>" as top-level root directories to save files, you can maintain everything local as you wish...

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by DennisAleynikov on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:30AM (#36530862)

some apps use the proper api but thats not the norm yet, PDF Viewer uses it correctly

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by scarface_74 on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:09AM (#36533445)

Which apps would that be?

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by redeeman on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:43AM (#36532722)

or how about apple never gimped the file handling to begin with? :)

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by whywhywhywhy on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:04AM (#36532865)

>If apps are still handling files that way instead of being able to open documents from anywhere in your local files, iCloud Drive, it’s on the developer.

Not a problem on a real operating system, everything just works. No need to pray the developer followed this years best practices instead of 3 years ago best practices just to use files in a sane manner. No need to beg a developer to fix it either, because the system was designed in a non-broken way to begin with.

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by photonerd on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:17AM (#36532973)

I’d love to know what fantasy world you live in where developers don’t routinely fuck up basic functionality of operating systems by implementing custom versions of things like save & print dialogs.

Because let me tell you, it ain’t this one. Windows & Linux routinely run into this & per your rant… shouldn’t.

Yet they do.

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by kaba0 on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:25AM (#36533653)

I don’t mind if not every app can read-write literally the only important files on my devices.

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