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The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android

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410 points morsch | 1 comments | 14 May 25 05:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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jeroenhd ◴[14 May 25 10:49 UTC] No.43982964[source]▶
> SAF cannot be used, as it is for sharing/exposing our files to other apps

SAF can be used. There are reasons why this wouldn't be a good fit for NextCloud (you can't share your entire internal storage, your download folder, or the root of an SD card, for instance), but I don't think NextCloud's statement makes sense.

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1. deng ◴[14 May 25 11:22 UTC] No.43983158[source]▶
Entirely correct, for instance see

https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/d...

This was discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970959