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deleted the iOS/Android file management thread because it’s too complex a topic to do justice in like four tweets

‪both iOS and modern Android’s file management are aggressively sandboxed, but somehow modern iOS manages to do it in a more comprehensible way, and they have made things easier for app developers rather than harder‬

meanwhile hell has frozen over and now iOS lets the user just… move files in and out of apps’ sandboxes. they can just open the Files app and move… files… around. and the app can simply access those files with POSIX APIs.

if only iOS allowed side-loading, I’d make apps for it

in general I think Android is designed to antagonise anyone whose favourite programming language isn’t Java, which incidentally includes almost all game developers.

s/Java/JVM-based/

@hikari more like kotlin nowadays, at least from what I've seen

@hikari Android is definitely designed to antagonize Java users

@hikari praying to the EU gods

@hikari If you use the POSIX APIs bad things™ happen

@hikari (notably without file coordination you may have the file yanked out under you or get a stale copy)

@hikari Ironically this really harms Flutter, which relies on direct paths for file system access. I've had way more issues letting users access an app directory, while on iOS I can just make the document directory visible in Info.plist

Ideally I'd like users to be able to select any path but that doesn't seem possible on either platform for Flutter, it really needs URL path support