Total Commander

Hi Ghisler et.al.

This is a Android development question. I have a stack overflow question here about how to access /Android/data in Android-11:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67726278/android-11-read-android-data-directory-of-all-apps-without-legacy-request-fil

I can see that Total Commander, probably through evil black magic but obviously without root'y type of magic, manages to get programmatic access to /Android/data of other apps. How? Is that the legacy appreach with requestLegacyExternalStorage=true in the manifest and target < 30?

I'm asking because I would like to have scheduled backups (copies) of some of the documents that some app's place there, and TC cannot do that (to my knowledge).

Best Alex

No, it's not black magic, the answer to your stackoverflow question is correct:
TC just asks for access to /storage/emulated/0/Android/data via OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE intent.
The trick is to tell the intent where to go - you cannot go there manually, but the files app will open the folder when directly told.

Then access the folders via scoped storage functions.