Is this something new? For the HTC phone on Verizon (Desire?) I was pretty sure this returned the paltry external SD card while most users ended up using the built in storage. This causes most apps indexing content on these devices to fail, including the Gesture Search from Google Labs... Would love to be wrong or plain ignorant on this as it has caused me a lot of grief and custom code...
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: > It returns the main partition, that you can count on being populated; for a > device with a built-in USB mass storage and an external SD card it will > return the built-in one. > > Android does not yet define the behavior for dealing with multiple SD > cards. Devices that use that configuration are outside of the core > platform, and should provide their own mechanism for them if they want -- > such as a shared library to find out about the secondary storage. > > The platform really needs to define a good UX story around this before just > throwing APIs at developers. > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Indicator Veritatis <[email protected]>wrote: > >> What does this API do on a phone that has two SD cards? Does it just >> pick only one of them? Or do all such devices fail CDD and so are not >> on the Google Android Market? >> >> On Feb 26, 3:41 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Dimitry Golubovsky < >> [email protected]>wrote: >> > >> > > I am not worried about Market at all. I am worried about the portable >> > > way to tell my program where is the sdcard root directory is mounted >> > > because part of the usage scenario is user being able to upload >> > > certain files to sdcard where my program must be able to find them. >> > >> > > To clarify, this is a port of Squeak (Smalltalk) [1], [2] to Android >> > > which I am trying to alter to fit my needs; in particular the original >> > > port loaded the image from assets, but I would like to be able to load >> > > it from sdcard where user may place it after customization using an >> > > instance of Squeak on user's PC. >> > >> > The correct way to do this is Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(). >> > >> > If you want to make your application work on an incompatible device that >> has >> > this API broken, you will need to write code specifically for that >> device. >> > There is no magical solution that makes your app work regardless of >> what >> > someone has done to Android. >> > >> > -- >> > Dianne Hackborn >> > Android framework engineer >> > [email protected] >> > >> > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to >> > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such >> > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see >> and >> > answer them. >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > -- > 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 > -- 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
