Hi Jacque, > Am 18.07.2023 um 20:57 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > On 7/17/23 5:02 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: >> Since PDFs are not accessible via "mobilepickmedia" are there ANY other ways >> to add >> some PDFs later without having to download them from some URL? > > I tried several things but I couldn't get any of them to work. You can write > to and read from the mobile documents folder, but if you put a file in there > manually it isn't seen by the app. I use a very good file manager on Android > called Solid Explorer and it does see a file I copy to documents, but my > mobile app doesn't list it or confirm anything is there. > If you want to try, download a good file manager; Google or Samsung's default > Files app won't work. Then go to the app's document folder, which is located > here: > /Android/data/com.your.appID/ > You may have to give the file manager permissions to open those folders, > they're locked down in recent versions of Android. Solid Explorer will ask > you to allow it.
thank you, will install and try Solid Explorer! > We really need LC to give us access to the public documents folder. I think > that's the only way to do what you (and I) want. Yes, definitively! The "Downloads" or "Documents" folder would be a good start, otherwise we cannot create apps where the user needs to add more files. Since this is an app for my personal pleasure, I will create a way to "sync" local files with files on my server. > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com Best Klaus -- Klaus Major https://www.major-k.de https://www.major-k.de/bass kl...@major-k.de _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
