Comment by danparsonson

2 months ago

There isn't a permission for that though - it's all or nothing. I agree that it should be more granular; each app should really have its own scoped file storage area by default, with "access anything" being reserved for file browsers, backup software, etc.

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billfruit  2 months ago

Android already has support for scoped storage. So it is not clear why Obisidian needs the whole file system permission.

  • wkat4242  2 months ago

    Yes but only later Android versions. If you start supporting those you need to move to the corresponding API level and that means to drop support for older ones. They probably don't want to do that yet. This one is Android 10 and up, and the Android 10 version of scoped storage was quite basic IIRC so you probably want an even later one. I guess they still want to support older phones.