From time to time, we need to adjust our schedule for certain features. We are well aware that the Document Provider is the most-requested feature of the Android app, but despite this fact, we need to temporarily shift our attention to other tasks within this project. This blog post you’re reading right now is to keep you, our community, updated and inform you that we are unable to stick to our original plan. Unfortunately, this means that any further development of the Document Provider feature needs to be postponed to the end of this year.
This is actually the one thing stopping me from using Cryptomator as my daily driver. I predominantly organise files on my phone, rather than desktop, these days. And without the document provider dialogue it’s way more of a pain to save files to the cloud, as you need the extra step of downloading it to shared storage and then going to files, and sharing the file to the cryptomator app.
Other, even small time, cloud providers provide the document provider dialogue so you can save files directly.
It’s a shame, because I already paid for the android app, but hardly use it because it’s too much of a pain to use.
The desktop app is fantastic, but again, if I can’t use it on my phone easily, it’s not very useful.
This feature started to be asked in 2017 by your customers (customers, as the android app was a paid app), many, many users claimed they need it to be usable on android and you replied working on it.
Without this feature it’s quite impossible to change a document open on an android phone from the crypted cloud and save it back after ended the change.
I never seen before a developement team who promise such a requested a feature for 8 years but never achieve its developement and continue to promise it for the next year… 8 years is a very very long time.
Hey everyone,
I recently purchased the app hoping to use it in a specific way, but unfortunately realized it’s missing a key feature I was counting on. That’s pretty disappointing. I don’t mind the small cost, but after looking into the history of this feature and how it’s been communicated and prioritized, it’s hard to recommend the app to others right now.
Has development on this been abandoned? Should I uninstall and look for an alternative, or is it actually worth waiting? If so, what kind of timeline are we realistically looking at?
Ive been a cryptomator user on Linux and iOS for 3 years. I use it to sync a KeePass vault across devices via cloud storage.
I just setup a GrapheneOS device and purchased an android license. I’m disappointed to find out that this feature has yet to be implemented on android. I cannot use KeePassDX to update my password vault via cryptomator. This workflow has been flawless on iOS with KeePassium.
To purchase an android license and discover this basic feature missing is a shame. Its even worse to find out that the community has been begging for this feature since 2017. Communication has been lacking and discussion has been suppressed on the relevant github issue threads.
I understand that this is open source software with many priorities, and development takes time. But I struggle to see the rational for selling android licenses at this stage.
Up until now I’ve had a very positive experience with the software, so I still do appreciate all the hard work.
There hasn’t been any news on github for this issue since Feb. 2024, 2 years ago. The request for this is from 2017, the first message of this thread from 2021.
A little bit more communication to your customers would be very appreciate.