Access to SD card

[Simon Redman]

Hi,

Sorry that this has been sitting so long. I think the current situation
is that none of the active KDE Connect developers have a phone with an
SD card, so we can't test this. However, it would be nice to be able to
use an attached SD card the same as the phone's internal storage

Google will be forcing every app on the Play store to drop support for
certain older APIs in a few months. I don't remember the exact details,
but this might be be what you were looking for when you said
"distinguish between/drop older API levels"

If you would like to work on this upgrade, we would be happy to consider
anything which has been thought through and well-assembled

By the way, a lot of our recent discussion has been via Telegram.
Hopefully future emails won't take so long to answer, but if you want to
ask quick questions or get quick opinions you're welcome to join us:
https://t.me/joinchat/AOS6gA37orb2dZCLhqbZjg

Thanks,
Simon

On 06/25/2018 07:53 AM, karl-heinz-1950 at web.de wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I raised some time ago the topic on this DL that accessing the SD card doesn't work properly in quite a few cases. Let me wrap up the result of my analysis on a high level:
>
> - Issues are due to SAF (Storage Access Framework) on Android. SAF is not implemented in kde connect
> - Access to mobile filesystem is done via ssh using apache mina, using a very old version.
>
> The question is now how to continue with that issue.
>
> - Leave everything as it is? -> Means basically 95% of all Android users cannot access the SD card, might only work on very old devices
> - Remove the feature and communicating clearly that this won't work, to manage expectations?
> - Move away from access via ssh fs? -> Easily possible on the Android side, but probably not possible on the KDE end
> - To get rid of the issue with the empty directory, it might be worth a try to upgrade the to the latest ssh library. --> quite some changes to the old library, I have to admit I failed in trying to update to a new version. Someone knowing more about the ssh library should give it a try
> - Implement SAF and distinguish between all different API levels, or drop at least some older API levels?
> - ....
>
> I am still willing to help but I don't want to run into a direction which is end the end not accepted. So if some maintainer takes a decision that the issue is tackled in this or that way, then we would be able to proceed.
>
> Comments?
>
> Have a good day!