[noname120]

There are no good workarounds unfortunately and it's definitely not solved on later Android versions. I agree though that the reason that Nextcloud gives is factually incorrect (they say that SAF is for providing files rather than accessing them, which is plain wrong).

[tadfisher]

From what I understand, you can resolve most issues by making ContentResolver queries yourself once you have URI permissions for a folder, including data like filename, mime type and file size in the query projection. This reduces an NxM number of queries to N, where N is the number of nested directories in the tree and M is the number of files in the directory.

Obviously this should be solved with a better API at the SAF layer.