Import was switched off on Android: `imports_supported` was true only for
`target_os = "linux"`, and its comment said Android has no path to read a
card by and nowhere to write the copies. Neither holds. With "all files
access" (MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, API 30) an app reads the root of an SD
card or a USB card reader by path, `/storage/9C33-6BBD`, and the importer
only ever writes into its own staging directory, which is a plain
directory on Android too. So the engine runs unchanged; what was missing
was finding the card and the permission.
- The manifest declares MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, and
READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE up to API 29 with requestLegacyExternalStorage,
which is the same access on 28 and 29.
- Cards.java lists the mounted non-primary volumes through
StorageManager and opens the system "All files access" page for this
app. dr_ui::cards is the JNI bridge, through saf's helpers.
- The import page on Android asks for the permission with an "Allow
access" button until it has it, rather than showing an empty list that
reads as "no card", and watches for the grant so the list fills in when
the user comes back from settings.
Google Play restricts this permission to file managers and the like;
DarkRoom is sideloaded, so that does not apply.
saf.rs and the export path's SAF branch shipped tagged FR-PLAT-AND-1,
and the matrix counted the requirement as covered. Its subject is the
library — reached through SAF grants — and Android still reaches a
library over a Nextcloud account or a folder path. What the SAF code
does is give an album a folder on the tablet, which is FR-EXP-10.
outstanding.md said the figure overstated it and should be read with
this one subtracted; it now says the tags were narrowed, and coverage
reads 161 of 192.
rustfmt over the files the albums work touched, and the album merge's
incoming row as a named struct rather than an eight-field tuple, which
clippy's type_complexity refused.
Android's only export destination was the library on the server
(ExportTarget::available), because writing to the device goes through
the Storage Access Framework and nothing did. An album's folder on the
tablet is now chosen in the system's tree picker — which has its own
"Create new folder" — and exports are written into it with
DocumentsContract.
The picker answers through onActivityResult, and the main activity is
NativeActivity, whose result is not ours. FolderPicker is a translucent
activity that only asks: it starts ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE, takes a
persistable grant (a folder is chosen once and exported to for months),
leaves the URI in a static, and finishes. Rust polls it from a Slint
timer — one static call, rather than a registered native method and a
thread to deliver on.
Two things the first build on the tablet got wrong, recorded where they
are fixed:
- Our classes must be loaded through Context.getClassLoader(). The
class of what ndk_context holds is a framework class from the boot
loader, which reports every class in the APK as not found.
- What ndk_context holds is the application context, not the activity,
and starting an activity from it throws without FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK.
Saf.write creates the document (or, under Overwrite, reopens the one of
that name with "wt" so a shorter file does not keep the old tail) and
returns the name the provider actually gave it, since SAF renames on a
collision by itself; the album records that name. A tree URI reads in
the sidebar as its folder ("Pictures/Web"), not as a content:// string.
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