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Re:iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? by josteink on Sunday January 06, 2013 @01:03PM (#5017025)
Android doesn't have a file picker.

Maybe stock doesn't, but install any file-manager from market, and voila you have just that.

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Re:iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? by MatthewPhillips on Sunday January 06, 2013 @04:04PM (#5017717)
File managers aren't file pickers. 3rd party apps do not integrate with them.
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Re:iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? by josteink on Monday January 07, 2013 @01:58AM (#5019812)
That is where you are wrong.

Just like gallery-app can be a file picker, so can a file manager be. Like cm's file manager is.

Or it can be something else entirely, like a dropbox frontend. You've just got to have a little bit more imagination ;)

In Android, 3rd parties don't need to integrate, the OS does it for them via intents. That's the number one thing which makes the OS so flexible and exciting.

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