This is the same method that Notepad currently uses to import/export notes. That having been said, this feature could in theory be implemented using Android's Storage Access Framework (for Android 4.4+) without the app having to request permissions. For example, the app's logic assumes that notes are stored internally with very specific filenames (the Unix timestamp of when the note was last modified).
Notepad's 5-year old codebase is in a poor state and it isn't set up very well to handle this kind of scenario.How would Notepad handle scenarios where the state of the folder changes unexpectedly? (files and/or the folder itself being deleted or modified by an external app) The external storage of an Android phone can be modified by any other app holding the storage permission.Adding permissions results in auto-updates being disabled for users on Android 4.x and 5.x.The app is advertised as having 'zero permissions', and adding the storage permission would break this promise the app has had since it was first released.I could add the permission as well as an option in settings to set the storage path, but there are a few holdups that I have with doing so:
As mentioned, Notepad not requesting the storage permission is a big reason why this feature hasn't been implemented yet.
