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izacus on Oct 21, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Syncthing Android App Discontinued

Yeah, but the legitimate use-case for that permission is VERY narrow - as in, if there's ANY way to implement your use-case using SAF, you MUST use SAF.

And SyncThing can be implemented using SAF - it's "just" a lot of work and that's usually not enough for Play Store to grant exception.

codethief on Oct 22, 2024 [–]

I see, thanks so much for elaborating!

> it's "just" a lot of work

What about I/O performance? I would expect SAF to come with some overhead that might not make it a good solution for a file syncing application.

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