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FWIW I agree that this is not worth the work. It not strictly an one-time burden either as any new or edited code needs to follow this convention too or...

can you name some sites or platforms that actually use SRT?

The feature OP is requesting here is for Luanti to have a [custom documents provider](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/create-document-provider). > I think it might be easier to add a button in settings that lets...

A DocumentsProvider is the exact opposite of "native file access". Luanti needs direct `fopen` access to its own files. No platform-specific code, no Java. > I guess an alternative would...

Yes, that's exactly how other apps (shown in OP) do it.

> So what prevents us from doing that? Nothing. Contributions to implement a document provider are welcome. It requires actual code, not just a toggling a switch somewhere.

We're aware (#10600 is marked high priority) but apparently nobody has time to work on this 🤷

As I've found out this may apparently be possible through [androidx.core.content.FileProvider](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/core/content/FileProvider) without needing to do much on the Java side.

API wise this seems to be the "Discovering recent media apps" feature described in this blog post: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/08/playing-nicely-with-media-controls.html It assumes that every media app has its own media library, content...

I think this relates to the resending behaviour of the reliability layer of our networking code. I don't remember whether we have linear or exponential backoff, or if there is...