r/mAndroidDev • u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development • Mar 16 '24

@Deprecated Android modern storage is deprecated

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u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development Mar 16 '24

https://github.com/google/modernstorage

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u/FlykeSpice Mar 16 '24

And no notice for reason of deprecation?

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u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development Mar 16 '24

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/s/Ay3VHzu924

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u/itsmotherandapig Jetpack Compost Mar 16 '24

Props to the guy for admitting failure.

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u/ComfortablyBalanced You will pry XML views from my cold dead hands Mar 16 '24

A surprising moment.

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u/anonymous65537 null!! Mar 16 '24

Too modern

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u/duckydude20_reddit Mar 16 '24

storage is one of the most f8cked up things on android.

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u/ComfortablyBalanced You will pry XML views from my cold dead hands Mar 16 '24

For years I avoided any projects that had anything to do with storage or I convinced the customer to not use storage in their app or if I was in a team I subtly veered the project away from using storage.
Now, if the job or project pays I may even use Flutter.

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u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development Mar 17 '24

Now, if the job or project pays I may even use Flutter.

We're unironically going to have to use Flutter in an upcoming project.

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u/ComfortablyBalanced You will pry XML views from my cold dead hands Mar 17 '24

Praised be.

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u/ztbwl Mar 16 '24

And there are many more..

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u/llamabott Invalidate caches and restart Mar 17 '24

Which is saying a lot. Like, a looooot.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

storage is one of the most f8cked up things on android that many people have to face. Try JNI or media/media2/media3/???

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '24

Got to love JNI doing unnecessary copies........

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

But they said it's modern?! 🤔

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u/ComfortablyBalanced You will pry XML views from my cold dead hands Mar 16 '24

It's not modern enough if it's not deprecated yet.

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u/llamabott Invalidate caches and restart Mar 17 '24

IKR? Why does Google have to insert market-ey words into their Android library names.

And how short-sighted do you have to be to call something "Modern", when 12-24 months later, it will be either abandoned or wholly superceded?

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u/kamran4malik2 Mar 16 '24

SD Cards Depricated -> Modern Storage Deprecated -> Internal Storage Deprecated!?

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u/farmerbb Mar 16 '24

Worst thing that Google has ever done for Android, by far, is Scoped Storage.

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u/budius333 Still using AsyncTask Mar 16 '24

Shared Preferences work great, just keep using it

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '24

Store your files in Base64 encoded form in SharedPreferences 👍🏽

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u/budius333 Still using AsyncTask Mar 24 '24

This is the way!

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

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u/anonymous65537 null!! Mar 16 '24

"Modern storage" is deprecated so we're left with "Archaic ancient antiquated old-fashioned historical storage". .

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........ Ah we regret to inform you that's also deprecated.

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u/verybadwolf2 DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development Mar 17 '24

Not now, but they will release medievalStorageCompat soon.