modernstorage VS storage-samples

Check this library from Google: https://github.com/google/modernstorage

The developer experience could definitely improved and that's why we're making this library. If you've looked at the getting started section of modernstorage-storage, you can see it mentions a SharedFileSystem. The goal is to have one for the cache & internal files with the same API, making it much easier for you to interact with files. If you have any feedback or idea, feel free to create a discussion topic here.

I believe Google is working on modern storage library to deal with developer nuances. https://github.com/google/modernstorage

Yes it does, it's because the code outlined here belongs in the ViewModel, the launch should be triggered as one-off events. But as we know, Google samples often didn't use Channel(UNLIMITED) even though it's a solution to this problem

Use the example from the official to get images, works! but only for images taken with the camera. will it work in any android version? don't know.

I am running Lineage OS and that comes without com.android.documentsui. It has an alternative documentsui tied to the stock file manager. Meaning I couldn't remove just the file manager without removing documentsui like I would be able to do in stock android. I just thought that every file manager comes pre packed with its own version of documentsui, based on the fact that some alternative file managers also work with keepassdx. Also according to this article from android developers every app can implement its own file picker/ document provider that can be used by other apps example from the article (github).

Read more about storage in our storage guide documentation and our code samples.

They will be available there (probably end of March): https://github.com/android/storage-samples/