How I Used Apple's File Provider API to Bring Android Files Into Finder (opens in new tab)

5 Things Nobody Tells You About macOS File Provider Extensions I spent the last few months building a File Provider extension that mounts an Android phone as a native Finder location — files-on-demand, no FUSE, no drivers. The framework is genuinely great. The docs are genuinely sparse. Here are the five things I wish someone had told me on day one. 1. It's not a filesystem — it's a Q&A session with the OS I came in thinking "File Provider = mount a drive." Wrong mental model. You never imple...