Fenix: Refactor Downloads for Android 11 Storage + Change download path

[vesta0]

Part of Meta: #4417

User Story

As a user, I want to be able to choose where my downloads are saved in my phone's storage, so I can have control and flexibility over my downloaded content.

Acceptance Criteria

[ ] I can see the default download location/file path
[ ] I can change the default download location

[Poopooracoocoo]

this is also great on devices with not much storage and SD cards

[eliserichards]

Chrome only shows this setting if you alter the flag (chrome://flags/#enable-downloads-location-change). This may need to live in our Advanced Settings, with some regex to guarantee that any change is valid & reversible

[Poopooracoocoo]

Google says that they want to get rid of flags after some time (but Google says a lot of things lol). I think they'll eventually turn it on by default and remove it.

[eliserichards]

There will be major changes in Android 11 to the way that they are allowing us to access storage. If we continue with this card, we will have to do a pretty big refactor on the AC side to use the new Android 11 storage, and this card would block additional work on downloads bugs.

Confirmed with @vesta0 that this should go back into the backlog for now.

[liuche]

We would need to break this into refactor + adding the change download path.

[Imerion]

This would be very useful indeed. Does it include an option to always choose where to save a file? That is something I'm really missing! Could open another issue for that otherwise.

[Poopooracoocoo]

and something Chrome's been testing out is _when_. Like waiting until there is a WiFi connection, for example.

[Amejia481]

This would be very useful indeed. Does it include an option to always choose where to save a file? That is something I'm really missing! Could open another issue for that otherwise.

Yes, this includes the default path where files will be saved.

[Imerion]

@Amejia481 Right, but I mean choosing the desired location for every initiated download, not just having one folder where everything gets dumped.

[Amejia481]

Got it, that's a different feature!