Thread: Adding shortcuts to home screen doesn't work
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Old 12-19-2019, 11:03 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
First, I am no longer a CC developer.

... In CC's case this would mean that starting with Android 7, files cannot be passed between apps. Any attempt causes the app to die. ...
this is what I can't get my head around , if true.
lets say I just about squeeze a 4Gb HD video into the downloads folder of my android 9 tablet,
and I want to use a file explorer app to find it and hand it off to a video player,
its insane if that 4GB file then has to be copied / moved not pointed at. Even if there is sufficient storage to host a copy, it would take minutes, not seconds to made and hand off such a copy.

or, hopefully, the rule is not as black and white as you portray it, and it exempts the issue of using " open with" on large media files ?

Though the file size of an issue for e books, let's suppose a new improved targeted for A8 version CC has my e book of collected Shakespeare ,my George Martin omnibus, or some 100Mb graphic novel. Is it really going to be required to make and hand off a copy of each to a reader app, and not just provide a pointer. That copy process will not be instant on a low powered phone or basic tablet and will burn up precious storage space.

Surely this destroys much of the utility of any librarian app that is not itself a reader/renderer ?

I did try to google more info but I don't know enough about android coding to understand the intricacies of what I found

PS I did experiment a little with calibre box though. I found an inscrutable icon ( a right arrow in a box thing) that means open with/pass to my default reader app ( moon reader). When I tap that, a copy appears in books/moonreader/attachments. I have not tried to outsmart the system though by making that attachments folder the default download folder for calibre box. I have CB set to download to books/moonreader so that I can then find and open downloads using the my books tab in moon, and I can delete them with moon once read. CB will jsut them tell me the local library is out of date next time I use it, and will re-scan. Nothing breaks.
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