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Status: Assigned
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 2
Type: Feature

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issue 895479



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How to expose Android's DocumentsProvider to Files.app

Project Member Reported by ryoh@chromium.org, Aug 16 2017

Issue description

DocumentsProvider is an API in Android to provide custom filesystem by App(https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/document-provider.html?hl=ja),
like fileSystemProvider in ChromeOS(https://developer.chrome.com/apps/fileSystemProvider).

nya@ is working on introducing "recent" file system(https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=739398) and media sharing(go/arc++mediaview). Those filesystems are implemented with DocumentsProvider.

One of my intern project is exposing 3rd party DocumentsProvider to users.

There might be some UX problems:

 - Should we display those filesystems as users can guess those are from Android, not Chrome.
    - If a user installs the same app in both chrome and android, it might be confusing if there are same icon on  Files app.
 - Should we allow users to write/delete/modify files?
 

Comment 1 by ryoh@chromium.org, Aug 16 2017

I think it is related to 

 Issue 749925 
Files app: Update Media View roots UI to better indicate read-only roots
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=749925&q=media%20view&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Stars%20ReleaseBlock%20Component%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified

we have to desgien how to expose these roots to users.

weifangsun@, Could you tell me your ideas?

Comment 2 by uekawa@google.com, Aug 17 2017

Cc: ryoh@chromium.org
Owner: weifangsun@chromium.org
let's assign this to weifang.

Cc: -weifangsun@chromium.org mcirimele@chromium.org
+mcirimele@ - FYI.

Sorry for the delay. Let me take a look at this and provide an update.

Comment 4 by sashab@chromium.org, Feb 23 2018

Labels: CrOS-FilesApp-ARC
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)

Comment 5 by sashab@chromium.org, Feb 28 2018

Labels: -CrOS-FilesApp-ARC CrOSFilesFeature-ARC
Labels: -Pri-3 M-72 Pri-2
b/62245374 for corresponding buganizer ticket.
Cc: -fukino@chromium.org weifangsun@chromium.org
Owner: fukino@chromium.org
Cc: slangley@chromium.org
Blocking: 895479
Labels: -M-72 M-73

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