{"id":1285,"date":"2023-03-15T07:50:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T04:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aimp.ru\/blogs\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T08:46:26","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimp.ru\/blogs\/?p=1285&language=en","title":{"rendered":"AIMP v4 for Android","raw":"AIMP v4 for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On March 15, 2013, we have published first mobile version of AIMP. 10 years have passed since that moment! In that time we’ve come a long way – from the simplest version<\/a> with just a few buttons and playlist, to a version that supports multi-playlists, NAS, cloud storages and much more. Yes, perhaps the development was not as fast as many people wante<\/a>d, but Android also evolved: the requirements for applications changed, restrictions were introduced, new versions of firmware based on this OS appeared with a different behavior of basic functions. Much of the time was simply spent on adapting the application to the new things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we glad to present you AIMP4, the next big update for the mobile version of player for Android OS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Operate with files<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As you know, Android 11 have introduced file access restrictions<\/a> – applications no longer have full access to user files, even for reading. Google recommends using the storage access framework<\/a> (SAF). All releases since v3.20 were based on this recommended approach, and unfortunately, the approach has proven to be extremely negative – people do not understand these limitations and blame us for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Restricted access<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The OS has a special permission for music applications, it allows the app to use old files access approach, but lists audio files only*\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Unfortunately, not all audio (or related to it) files determines by Android OS as audio files. In this approach:<\/p>\n\n\n\n