The Death of External Storage: Where’s Google?

Under the fairly innocuous title of “scoped storage”, Google has announced that external storage, as Android developers have used it, effectively is dead, for Android Q and onwards. In truth, I was not terribly surprised to see some changes in external storage in Android Q. Particularly with Android 7.0’s , “the writing was on the wall” for the use of files, at least for app-directed content sharing with another app. And if the plan for restricting external storage has been in place since Android 7.0 — three years ago — I would have expected Google to be consistently promoting the Storage Access Framework.

Source: commonsware.com