[feature request] download to SD card

[placidcasual98]

• I carefully read the contribution guidelines and agree to them.

• I checked if the issue/feature exists in the latest version.

[feature request] downloading to an SD card,
at the moment you can only do it to internal memory so I "request the feature" of being able to download to an SD card.
No redirect to other fault threads
For example
#315
#412
Are bugs, NOT an feature request.

[DanGLES3]

That's the thing IT IS A BUG you can download to sd card on older versions of android but if you try doing it on newer versions it wont work and crash,so the feature IS there it just BROKEN on newer versions of android

[ghost]

That's because newer Android versions use a special way to access external storage. We didn't want to change that part of the downloader, since we're going to replace the downloader with a whole new much better downloader. So until I've implemented the new downloader (which will probably take a while, since I don't have that much time), this is still going to be an issue.

[theScrabi]

I'm not sure, I took a look into gigaget, maybe we can morph it a bit at make it work with storage framework. The part with which you can get access permission is already written.

[theScrabi]

closing if favour of #962

[knoddix]

Quick question guys, I have noticed with a number of applications on Android including newpipe that I can set the SD Card as the default download/save location but when I go to actually download/save something it fails to write I've only noticed this since starting to use newer Android devices running Android 5 or later, so my question is, is this an issue specific to the applications code? And does it need to be corrected on a per app basis by the developer? I should mention there are some apps that will save/Download data to the SD Card no issue and all apps affected have permissions to access storage.