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by ristos 619 days ago
> Now the new API adds fine-grained access and removes complete access. > What are they gonna do? Give the old gallery app fake file access, making it completely useless?

Can you elaborate on your example here? Couldn't they just do something like replace oldGalleryAppOpensOrWritesToAnyPlace() to askPermissionsForWhichFilesAndFoldersCanBeWrittenTo() or ifSensitiveDirIsNoLongerAccessibleAskPermissionOnWhichFolderToUseForCompat() ?