App was installed from Fdroid, but I’m curious why it can browse any folders and see all files. Going into App settings, the Permissions is greyed out. Usually Android will prompt if I want an app to allow access to files (full/limited/none) but not for this app.
are you sure that it has that access?
on my phone the “select file to open” button just opens the system built in file browser, which is used to grant apps access to individual files or directories.
I think it has access through the system filepicker app, and I’m pretty sure that means it will only temporarily be granted access to read just the file you pick. You, the user, can see and select any and all the files on the screen, but in this case, the app that requested the file access can’t see the content of the filepicker app’s UI - if I’m not totally mistaken.
If someone can confirm this, please do!
It’s still targeting Android 14, so maybe that was before the permissions lockdown?
I think internal storage access was behind a permission too for very long, if not always. and I mean a toggleable permission that is default off.
