@Karlitschek I remember having a discussion on mpv-android's GitHub repo about Google restricting access to files. Same issue, same discussion. At that time I thought it was easy to make Google allow this permission, but time shows how wrong I was.

Nowadays I'm REALLY annoyed at Google's anti-competitive behaviors: while they are forcing Gemini on their users, it's simply not possible to one to make a competitive alternative to Google Assistant, it uses permissions that are restricted only to system apps.