I want to download mp4 files in my new app 'Downloader for Social Media'. How can I do in android 14?

[Poonam_Rani]

Please help me further. In my new app,I want to download mkv/mp4 files. How can I do in android 14?
& what is SAF. Please Provide any link to understand download & permission problem. I couldnt find any solution targeted above android 13.
Thanks in advance

[Taifun]

Download from where? Somewhere from the internet?
As the download component does not work currently, use an extension

[FREE] ASD Downloader Extension - Download and manage files in ASD

Short description ASD Downloader extension to download files in App Specific Directory (ASD) without READ or WRITE PERMISSION. Since ASD is always accessible to READ and WRITE files within the app it does not requires READ and WRITE PERMISSION. Nowadays due to new restrictions in higher Android versions it is difficult to manage files without READ and WRITE PERMISSIONS where ASD is very useful to store downloaded files and manage them without any permission. This extension allows you download…

Why do you think you will have permission issues?
I don’t think you will need SAF …
Maybe it helps to read Some basics on Android storage system

For more information about SAF, see here

SAF: App Inventor implementation of Storage Access Framework

1.Introduction Description: Basically AI2 wrapper of Storage Access Framework. Using this extension, you can get read and/or write access to a single document or tree document (and all of its children recursively). Latest Version: 1.3 Released: 2021-09-16T18:30:00Z (UTC) Last Updated: 2023-11-15T18:30:00Z (UTC) 2.Blocks [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] 3.Documentation Events ErrorOccurred Event indicating error/exce…

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