Re:Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
by Arnt on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @09:34AM
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It is what e.g. Simple Gallery does. It works well. Nice API.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobi... or on github.
Re:Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
by deng on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @09:48AM
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FYI: The Simple Mobile Tools suite was acquired by an ad network and is pretty much discontinued, see
https://www.androidauthority.com/simple-mobile-tools-acquisi...
Use the Fossify fork instead:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fossify.ga...
Re:Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
by Arnt on Thursday May 15, 2025 @04:41AM
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It seems I escaped, by paying the original developer €1 a long time ago. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobi...
Re:Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
by GTP on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @09:46AM
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What are you referring to? Looking at that link, I see little overlap with what Nextcloud offers. There's a lot more in it than just a pretty gallery.
Re:Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
by Arnt on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @10:43AM
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The overlap is precisely that part which matters: The directory access portions. Both need to ask the user to choose which directories to access, and access all the files in those directories.
What they do after opening the files is very different, and irrelevant. FWIW I use both Nextcloud and that gallery app.
I see your point, but why isn't this the case for document management apps? Also, Nextcloud can be extended with plugins, some of them falling in the document management category.
> Further saying "let the user decide" works great in theory and with a considered, rational userbase.
Nextcloud is mostly used by people that like to self-host their services, so in this case we fall into the rational userbase category.