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I do not have Sailfish native Documents app, instead I use Android WPS Office because I use my Jolla as my main device for everyday use and I have to be able to edit files I use, not just read them. When I download a pdf file which I've received as an email attachment and try to tap on it inside the mail app nothing happens at all. The file is just not opened and I do not recieve any system notice about it saying if anything wrong or what. Just nothing. Partially the same as described here. But even worse that if I try to go to the email attachments folder with File Browser (native Sailfish one) and try to open my pdf file there the file can't be open either. This time with a message saying "No application to open the file". Seems like a serious bug to me. Apps installed should be aware of each other, no matter if they are native Sailfish or Android. Right now to view the pfd file from email attachment (or any other txt, doc, etc. file) I have to copy it manually to android_storage folder to make it usable by an android app and then to open WPS Office and find the file with the open dialogue inside it. Not the type of UX I would dream of.

I do not have Sailfish native Documents app, instead I use Android WPS Office because I use my Jolla as my main device for everyday use and I have to be able to edit files I use, not just read them. When I download a pdf file which I've received as an email attachment and try to tap on it inside the mail app nothing happens at all. The file is just not opened and I do not recieve any system notice about it saying if anything wrong or what. Just nothing. Partially the same as described here. But even worse that if I try to go to the email attachments folder with File Browser (native Sailfish one) and try to open my pdf file there the file can't be open either. This time with a message saying "No application to open the file". Seems like a serious bug to me. Apps installed should be aware of each other, no matter if they are native Sailfish or Android. Right now to view the pfd file from email attachment (or any other txt, doc, etc. file) I have to copy it manually to android_storage folder to make it usable by an android app and then to open WPS Office and find the file with the open dialogue inside it. Not the type of UX I would dream of.

I do not have Sailfish native Documents app, instead I use Android WPS Office because I use my Jolla as my main device for everyday use and I have to be able to edit files I use, not just read them. When I download a pdf file which I've received as an email attachment and try to tap on it inside the mail app nothing happens at all. The file is just not opened and I do not recieve any system notice about it saying if anything wrong or what. Just nothing. Partially the same as described here. But even worse that if I try to go to the email attachments folder with File Browser (native Sailfish one) and try to open my pdf file there the file can't be open either. This time with a message saying "No application to open the file". Seems like a serious bug to me. Apps installed should be aware of each other, no matter if they are native Sailfish or Android. Right now to view the pfd file from email attachment (or any other txt, doc, etc. file) I have to copy it manually to android_storage folder to make it usable by an android app and then to open WPS Office and find the file with the open dialogue inside it. Not the type of UX I would dream of.

UPDATE Now I have to change my question, as I've found out that not only Android apps can't be used to open files from the File Browser.

I've downloaded to my Jolla phone some podcasts in mp3 format from the internet to be able to listen to them offline. Now when I've tried to open them from File Browser nothing happened (again, that "No application to open the file" message). I should say that I had not installed Jolla's own Media app, but was using QuasarMX (which is also native Sailfish OS app), and that seems to be the problem. As soon as I've installed Jolla's Media app the problem is gone. Now I can start media files right from the File Browser.

I've checked again my original question: now I've istalled Jolla's own Documents app — it opens all correspondent document (pdfs, docs, etc.) from the File Browser with no problems.

Then I've tried to open from the File Browser a book in the fb2 format (I have native Sailfish OS FBReader app installed) — nothing again.

So, the question now is why media files or docs, or any other file types appearently can be opened from the File Browser with some not just native, but Jolla's own apps but can't — with any other app (native Sailfish or Android) if made not by Jolla? I am not that much tech person, so I can't find out my self, is that just the File Browser bug, or bug in the system, but to me it is an obvious bug: files should be able to be launched from the file browser if I have a correspondent app installed.