OK, I give up... it seemed like such a simple request, to be able to write to the AlpineQuest folder at the root of an external SD in Android 6, just like we used to be able to do in ALL previous versions of Android.Psyberia-Support wrote:That would be "nice" to have, but not my priority right now. Rooted devices are still an exception, for system tool apps like backuping or file managing, it make sense, but for an hiking application that's just a plus.
I have so many (common) features already planned that I just don't want to spend time on studying how to work with rooted devices, documentation is poor and unofficial, and there is no guarantee that working stuffs and hacks will work in the following Android versions (they usually try to fix those kind of breaches)...
Moreover I consider owners of rooted device "experienced" users, and they are still able to change themselves the android permissions file like you explain in your post just above.
Sorry about that.
So we are all forced to switch to using the default Google Marketplace path which will wipe out all of the data if AQ is uninstalled, an especially worrying risk for anyone who has invested many hours/days creating off-line map sets. Please correct me if this is NOT the case, as this is my primary concern about using the default path.
Anyway, someone is bound to write a rooted app/script for managing Android 6, per application, permissions (as applied to the packages.xml file), so I'll keep searching. After all, what we are talking about here is a one line edit in a text file, hardly rocket science, but such a PITA to do on a phone. If I find one, I'll report back...