Aaron Madlon-Kay

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I had an incident with this problem yesterday that makes me think it has something to do with Google Drive’s account switching feature. 1. Obtain a persistable identifier for a...

Actually I came to the same conclusion as well: this permission seems not to be needed. Note that it is a "dangerous" permission [per the docs](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission#READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE). That means that you...

At the very least it should work for local storage. I won't be holding back on features just because of Google Drive being lazy.

> But the user would first select `foo/bar` and then your application would show another selector where he chooses the file? No, sorry I should have given the full scenario....

> Perhaps the situation is better on iOS. Neither Google Drive nor Dropbox support persistent access to directories. Local storage and iCloud Drive do.

One thing that throws a bit of a wrench in my plans is that it seems that on Android you can't resolve the parent of a known `content://` URI. For...

@hpoul Would it be OK with you if I got rid of the deprecated `file` property on `FileInfo`? I find there is a need to resolve a relative path and...

I am still working on this. It's taken a lot longer than I thought due to the complexity of the Android Storage Access Framework, but I've got it mostly under...

> right, but this looks pretty much like the only place? Yes, sorry, I said “e.g.” because the equivalent entry point also exists on Android. > a dedicated `OpenErrorHandler` which...

Thanks for the update. I think a string message is good enough. Just being able to receive a notification is actually enough for me. Regarding callbacks, I have to say...