Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoWas going to comment the same, this issue has existed for some time. LibreTorrent ran into the same issue and now the F-droid version is their full-featured app while the Google Play version is restricted due to Google.
Interesting that Nextcloud managed to last this long on Google Play without running into the same limitations (until now that is).
ripcord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wait, why would libretorrent require all files access?
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
How do you think torrents work? They basically just download a file, but from multiple people instead of a single server. It needs access to the file system so it can save the files.
ripcord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It needs access to the file system. But why would it need access to the whole thing? Just download to its own storage, no? Then use something else to copy elsewhere.
Unless this is to support saving to any folder, or built in smb support or something.
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Thanks for clarifying, I thought the comment above was asking why it needed file access in the first place, not all file access.