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You just gotta think different

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I have this problem with Android. Google has turned the filesystem into unusable garbage, so you're lucky, if you can launch a gallery app with a file path and it allows you to actually go through the images in that folder.
And of course, that's with a local file path, so the situation is completely hopeless when your images are on a network share. Unless the gallery app itself implements the network protocol, you're out of luck.
Wanna guess how often that happens? Yeah, it simply doesn't. Even if it's theoretically just a library, when you build it into the gallery app, that dev has to continually maintain and test it.
- SSHFS actually works perfectly on android, just needs root. Here's the app I use.
  It's funny how the README calls it a "VERY bad solution", but so far it's the only remote filesystem tool I've seen on android that could be described as anything close to usable.
  
  @renzev @Ephera it does not work good, because on android you have to mount sshfs 3 times to become it accessible for apps. Just little option to add 2 bind mounts and maintain it would solve fs access issues, but now manually doing it in root shell is not easy
  
  Hmmm interesting. I've never had issues with that. I just mount it once to a mountpoint in my shared storage and it just works. Probably a ROM-specific thing.
  
  @renzev for me, /mnt/runtime/default is not enough, because some apps using /mnt/runtime/read or /mnt/runtime/write as storage.
- I love how android uses ext internally, but doesn't support ext drives natively.
- I can't even mount my Android storage to my computer without some unreliable MTP FUSE program.
- @Ephera @renzev android fs is just sucks. You cannot share folder with other app because of gargage sepolicy. You can share folder descriptor to bypass mount namespace, but selinux will prevent accessing it until set to permissive mode. And android does not provide way to patch sepolicy for user.
  
  Thats an interesting server. Also, did you mean garbage or garage?
- Solid Explorer on Android is great, supports all kinds of protocol connections
  
  I mean, thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't seem to be open-source, so that's a hell no from me...
  
  Fair enough, I've been using it for like 10 years 🤷‍♂️
  You also didn't specify anything about open source in the original comment lol
  
  Ah, someone with experience with Solid Explorer. I'm hopeful you might be a power user.
  Long ago, I looked into it, but was dissuaded because the details views therein seemed to waste vertical whitespace. An absurdly small font, close to the bottom of the icon to maximize empty vertical space, was used for details (at least datestamp, I think).
  Is that still the case? Have they added a method to increase the font size of the details without also increasing (or perhaps simultaneously decreasing) the filename's font's size? I couldn't find one when I tried it last.
  If there's an interview with the creators wherein they extol the virtues of vertical whitespace within an item, or if some reviewer has done that for them, I'd love a link or two to read about it, see what I'm missing.
  I'm sure the functionality is great. It's the presentation I didn't like. But perhaps there are unintended consequences of a compact layout…
  
  Haha depends on what you mean, this is the default view I believe just zoomed out (pinched, rather then swapping to the compact view, which gets rid of the timestamp)
  
  Well, it was more of a rant, I wasn't exactly asking for suggestions. But you making a suggestion was perfectly fine anyways. I do just have opinions on proprietary Android apps.

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