Use cryptomator in low storage device to access very big folder

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I am not sure how cryptomator works in android.
It encrypts synced cloud folders.
But in case I have 200GB folder in my cloud (ie Google Drive) and my android device has only 128GB of storage. Can cryptomator help there?
Can cryptomator work as a wrapper of my cloud provider? So I can trough cryptomator preview a photo or read a pdf stored in my cloud, just by loading them in RAM, and then just in case I interested download the file to my android device.
Or instead cryptomator will require at least 200GB of storage in my android device in order to sync that folder?
Thanks

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The mobile apps encrypt and decrypt on the fly (direct access to the vault in your cloud), and only the requested files.
So yes, you can access and read a 200 GB vault on your 128 GB mobile device.

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Nice!
I thought I was being too optimistic to think cryptomator could decrypt on-the-fly in android.

So I guess even with the cryptomator encryption/decryption on-the-fly it’s required to having installed as well the cloud storage provider client (like google-drive client or mega client apps) in my android device, right?

As I guess we need to have the storage provider client installed in the device in order to sync. Do you know any cloud storage provider, preferable with a non-tracking policy, that has an open-source client and works well with cryptomator? I have a paid account in Proton. So I have like 500GB in Proton Drive, but I think cryptomator does not work with Proton Drive.

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No. Cryptomator connects directly to your cloud storage.
If you do not want to have theirs apps installed, you don’t need to.

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Cryptomator works directly with a select set of cloud providers on Android:

Dropbox
Google
Onedrive
pCloud
Webdav
s3

Proton drive if my memory serves correctly has its own client server end-to-end encryption algorithms built into their system. You pay a premium price for proton drive because it includes encryption in the product, whereas Google and Microsoft do not.

I don’t see any way for you to access your proton drive from Cryptomator.