Open a music file through a file provider about auxio

[OxygenCobalt]

As far as I'm aware, requesting access to a folder is not the "new standard" for media apps. According to This official article. MediaStore is the recommended way to index a devices media.

What I believe you're talking about is the Storage Access Framework, which is more-so meant for file-picking tasks. On top of that, streaming a file from the internet is not the same as streaming media. One is a simple download operation, while the other is a much more complicated process that would require refactoring much of Auxio to accommodate.

Unless I'm misunderstanding something here, I can't implement this.

[JosephPelletier]

Yes the storage access framework is what i am talking about (thanks for the name) and you did misunderstand me.

I am not suggesting you implement media streaming, I'm suggesting that you implement an SAF Client app that can be used optionally.
described here

• Client app—A custom app that invokes the ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT, ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT, and ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE intent actions and receives the files returned by document providers.

The SAF should call the document provider's code to retrieve the document (a music file in this case) from local storage or the network. Neither your app nor the SAF needs to be network aware since the Document Provider handles it if applicable. Document providers do not have to be cloud applications either, Termux is also a document provider, it provides access to the termux user's home folder which is part of the app's private storage.

my understanding is that this is relatively simple to do and should only require change to the code that opens media files, and of course the related UI.

If it sounds too sketchy or complex, ill take a crack at it if i get the time in the next couple months. I have tons of programing experience, but almost none with android, so we will see.

[OxygenCobalt]

Okay, so you're saying that I implement a file-picker action that opens a music file through a provider? I have the opposite workflow implemented [e.g opening a music file through a file picker will open Auxio], but not this. I'll try to see what I can do.

[OxygenCobalt]

Looking back on this, I really don't see the point in this. You can open music from the file manager, and other theoretical uses [like streaming] are more aligned with the possible idea of converting Auxio to a SoundPod client. I also have no clue where to add this. Sorry.