zhanghai / zhanghai/MaterialFiles

Receive a Share Intent to save Files to a location.

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Description

When sharing a file, document, or image from any app, the presence of a "receive intent" in the share menu allows other file managers, such as Simple File Manager, to provide the functionality of saving the file to a location of the user's choice. This feature enhances the user experience by granting more flexibility and control over file management.

Other file managers having this feature -> Simple File Manager, Amaze File Manager, Xiaomi File Manager to list a few.

I love Material Files, its UI and features and have no complaint whatsoever. This is the only feature that I think is missing.

Thanking you in anticipation of a positive reply @zhanghai

Regards

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Research direction

Start by investigating how MaterialFiles currently handles Android share intents and file-saving flows. Compare the expected behavior with the receive-intent implementations in the referenced file managers, then verify that a shared file, document, or image can be saved to a user-selected location.

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Assessment

Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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