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		apitman 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextc... SAF is a terrible solution for anyone trying to make a cross-platform app (and if you're not then why are you targeting Android as your one platform?), because it doesn't work with native code.

pjmlp 9 months ago [–]

JNI exists, and poor fellows having to write a bit of Kotlin or Java.

apitman 9 months ago | [–]

The problem isn't the language, it's that the API completely changes the paradigm of how you access the filesystem.

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