SAF: App Inventor implementation of Storage Access Framework

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Sure, here it is:

Also data gets kind of binded to the app and you don't lose access to it even after multiple reboots.

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Epic work :star_struck: :+1:

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Thank you..:+1:

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What is the syntax for setting an initialDir?
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Whatever I put in here, I am just taken to the last location I selected in the document picker ?

Ah, i just tried a full uri and this worked, e.g.

content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/tree/primary%3A/document/primary%3AMusic

opened at the Music folder

will this part be the same on all devices:

content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/tree/primary%3A/document/primary%3A

If I select the ASD I get a different path:

content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/tree/primary%3AAndroid%2Fdata%2Fedu.mit.appinventor.aicompanion3%2Ffiles/document/primary%3AAndroid%2Fdata%2Fedu.mit.appinventor.aicompanion3%2Ffiles

this is all using the companion...

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Yes, it doesn't matter whether there is an empty string or a special path there.

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... and you cannot select

  1. the root dir of the external storage /storage/emulated/0 and
  2. /Download

But you can select /Downloads.

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If anyone want to create a
empty folder after selecting the in "open Document Tree" by using "create document" .
then mimetype is following
....
vnd.android.document/directory

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This

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doesn't work

This returns the root dir (/storage/emulated/0) equivalent

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I was also hoping that these blocks would return a list of just files, but it also returns directories. I must be missing something? (I also tried around the other way using the IsTreeUri block, but that also returns files and directories)...

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As I said,

But you cannot select this path / dir.

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You should use GetMimeType block there.

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Great, these blocks return the directories:

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using a not block on the mimetype test should return files only :+1:

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Well you needn't type dir mime type there.
Please check properties.

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Yes :upside_down_face:

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I can't say how long you can access it, but you still can access /Android subdirs.

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Now Open Source :grin:

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@vknow360 Nice Extension please add event Zip success and failed
Thank You

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Sorry, for what?

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@vknow360 Given that you commented on the corresponding thread on GitHub, would you consider implementing this as part of a core component?

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