On Dec 19, 2:14 pm, Tabman <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a question related to this. How many phones are out there with this > type of behavior ? I want to access Camera Photos/Videos on a phone and for > that I've used EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI but it seems that approach would fail on > a phone like Droid Incredible. How should I design my app such that it is > able to get camera data from any android phone ?
It will fail on the Droid Incredible because they didn't wire up that URI to point to the "external" storage mounted at, I think, /emmc. That's fragmentation for you. (I think they did it wrong.) But at least their camera app doesn't put content on the sdcard. It's forced into the built-in space that will get picked up by the Android media scanner when it indexes EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI. However, it works on Galaxy S devices because its built-in "external" space is wired to that URI --AND-- if you do have a sdcard in the device, it will mount THAT filesystem underneath the internal storage space. So if the internal storage space was at /mnt/sdcard, your additional sdcard would be at /mnt/sdcard/external_sd. And when the Android media scanner runs to index media referenced by EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, it will scan all of /mnt/sdcard, including the sdcard. So they're doing it in a more compatible way that lets you get at the media on the user's sdcard in addition to the built-in space. I don't know what the Nexus S or HTC Hero do. I also don't know what this Picasa Tool Pro does. Maybe it doesn't query against the Android content providers for media and does its own thing instead. Doug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
