Some of you might have heard about rclone. It’s an open source app that you can use to mount pretty much any cloud storage provider that you have to your native file system. Like you would plug a USB flash drive for example.

Someone apparently brought the idea over to Android, creating an app that uses Storage Access Framework.

For those who don’t know what this means, it’s a way of accessing an app’s files through Android’s native file picker (which, in turn, is Android’s native file explorer). See this screenshot as an example. In the displayed side pane, you can see both Google Drive and OneDrive displayed. They both make use of Android’s Storage Access Framework and you can access their files right there in the file picker, without having the apps open.

If you created multiple accounts on different cloud storage providers, then this is an actual lifesaver for your phone’s storage, as it’s simply better to only have one app for them all instead of having multiple apps for all the providers.

github.com/chenxiaolong/RSAF

  • danhakimi@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    or f-droid… I’d love something like this, but I ain’t compiling shit from source for android, not nearly worth the hassle

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          1 year ago

          Something about Obtainium sketches me out, is it really safe?

          I installed it and got a note that it’s not compatible with the latest version of android… is it?

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            1 year ago

            Works flawless with latest android, speaking from a pixel. Might be some extra functionality i don’t use?

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              1 year ago

              alright, well that seems to be working for now, thanks.

              now to figure out how tf RSAF works…