This gives a number of problems:ġ: When opening a file in an app, that app may put the file path in its 'most recently used documents'-list. Dropbox, however, will mount directly into the Files App when you have the Android application installed.I think you should make files stored offline on Android available in the file system.Īs it is now, the dropbox files marked as 'available offline' are hidden from the rest of the operating system. It’s still not permanently mounted in the Files App but it is one step closer to getting our Google Photos back into the file system since they no longer live in Google Drive.
As Robby pointed out, the Google Photos Android app will allow the Android file picker to see Photos as a “mounted” drive. That said, this has changed my perspective a bit. Now, I’m not a big fan of using Android applications on my Chromebook but I also understand that I’m not the normal user. At some point, that changed and you can now easily mount your Dropbox to your Files app with a little help from the Play Store. The ability to show cloud storage apps natively has been available for more than a year but for whatever reason, Dropbox was missing the necessary API to take advantage of the feature. Yes, you can always access your Dropbox storage on the web and there’s even an unofficial option for mounting your Dropbox to Chrome OS’ file system but until recently, the options all felt a bit “hacky.” (Yes, there’s an official Dropbox “app” in the Web Store but it’s simply a symbolic link to the website.) Unfortunately for millions of users, Dropbox remained the outlier for quite some time. Obviously, all of your Google Drive storage is accessible by default right there in your Chromebook’s Files app but third-party applications such as Box and One Drive have played well with Chrome OS for some time now. Chrome OS is making it easier and easier to access all of you various files that live in the cloud.
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