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From: Mickey D <mickeydavis078XX@ptd.net>
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Subject: Re: text editor
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 12:03:35 -0500
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On 8 Mar 2024 10:59:38 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:

>>                         But an app that is aware of this new
>>regulation may ask the user to grant additional permissions to
>>access files in more directories IIRC.
> 
>   Few years ago, to do this, the app had to:
> 
>   - declare MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE in its manifest, and
> 
>   - use the ACTION_MANAGE_ALL_FILES_ACCESS_PERMISSION intent action
>     so that the user can enable this.

Thank you for that helpful information as text editing on Android should be
as simple and versatile as text editing is already on Windows & Linux.

Based on a suggestion in this thread from Anssi Saari, I found this app 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxistar.textpad

TextPad can be compiled with Android Studio according to the github.
https://github.com/maxistar/TextPad 

Which means maybe we can change the switches if we want to change them?
Looking specifically at the permission in F-droid gave weird results.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.maxistar.textpad/

The latest version of TextPad has two (new?) permissions listed.

Permissions Version 1.24.2 (42) Added on Nov 15, 2023 
 Modify or delete the contents of your shared storage
  (Allows the app to write the contents of your shared storage)
 Read the contents of your shared storage
  (Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage)

The other two versions have NO PERMISSIONS listed.
 Version 1.24.1 (41) - Added on Aug 05, 2023
 Version 1.24.0 (40) - Added on Aug 07, 2022 

What does that mean in light of what you warned about Android
changing the permissions to make normal text editing impossible?

Should I install the older versions without permissions?
Or the newer version that has those two permissions added?