Dianne rightly observes: "The platform really needs to define a good UX story around this before just throwing APIs at developers. "
Which would be a lot easier to do if OEMs would insist on a good UX story also before implementing bizarro features like two SD cards! Unfortunately, their history of failing to do this extends to long before the beginning of Android. But I still see no answer to the question: do such devices, for having such a non-standard configuration, fail CDD and therefore are not on the Market? I am sure such info would still be useful for the OP. On Feb 26, 4:32 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> 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 <mej1...@yahoo.com>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 <hack...@android.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Dimitry Golubovsky < > > golubov...@gmail.com>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 > > > hack...@android.com > > > > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
