[jospoortvliet]

Hi folks,

It's true some of our functionality can be rebuilt if we rewrite this functionality with SAF - even though it makes the user experience a bit worse. We have a file manager/document management app, which fits the use case for the full permission. There are some functions that are popular with some users like syncing a whole SD card, the download folder or the data of specific apps (in Android/data - some users use our app in a way as backup) that are just not possible with SAF. We get the security concerns from Google, but Box has this permission, so do quite some others, so our preferred solution is to re-gain the permission rather than bring back part of the functionality.

The good news is that this morning Google got back to us and told us that on resubmission we will regain the permission we need and our users regain all functionality within a few days.

So, this seems to have been resolved in a nice way. Thanks, all for the support!