Support Android File Chooser (to be able to add rclone remote)

[anaxonda]

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Feature description

The rclone management app roundsync supports exposing rclone remotes to other apps, as a local provider. For example, in my file manager Material Files I can add a Backblaze (or nearly any other cloud storage) hosted folder, and manage files and directories as I would with local files.

However, if the Gallery app uses its own directory chooser when choosing which folders to show as albums. In that interface, only folders on the SD card are shown, so I cannot choose my rclone directory.

Why do you want this feature?

This would enable viewing remote, cloud hosted photo albums. I'm looking for a solution to replace google photos, to be able to access my photo library (there are other nice solutions, eg Immich and Photoprism however they require servers.)

Additional information

One not practical nor easy implementation of this is to run rclone mount on a rooted phone.

I'm not sure if enabling using just the stock "file-picker" would be enough to enable showing these directories, but if so it should be pretty easy to enable.

[PhilC813]

It would also be useful to have this option when you want to move a photo to another folder (Move to > Other folder) in order to save into mounted cloud paths like Google Drive or else.

[PhilC813]

@Aga-C Are there plans to improve the file picker? It seems to be the same one that is shared across Fossify apps, but because it's a "proprietary" implementation, it's much more limited than the native Android file picker. It's the only thing preventing me to use Fossify Gallery.

[naveensingh]

Yeah, we might drop the custom file picker in favor of the Android file picker.