Windows phone 8.1 API for documents?

Question

I am trying to look for an API to fetch files from the documents folder on the Phone. There were no APi's for doing this Windows phone 8.0. Is there anything in windows phone 8.1 ?

Answer 1

The documents library is not accessible programmatically on Windows Phone 8.1. Instead applications are encouraged to use either the FileOpenPicker or FolderPicker to allow users to choose files in the documents library.

On Windows applications are able to access the documents library provided they follow the requirements listed here .

The capabilities are locked down since many users store personal or sensitive information in the documents library, and allowing silent read/write to store applications risks this information leaking. Instead users have complete control (through the pickers) of what files or folders in the documents library apps have access to.