Apps on SD card is cr*p that I wish we'd never needed to do. The MTP approach with Honeycomb is far, far better. Issues with interacting through MTP from PCs can be worked out; having to use USB mass storage for transfer has fundamental issues such as requiring a hard partition between the storage areas, having to unmount during transfer, etc.
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Chris Stratton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 10:29:50 AM UTC-4, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > wrote: > >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Drew <[email protected]> wrote: >> > That's a shame that apps on the SD card have >> > so many limitations. >> >> I think that the long-term direction is to blur some of the space >> distinctions between internal and external storage, so that "apps on >> the SD card" can fade into history. >> > Yeah... but now the postings from people experience pain from transition > from USB mass storage to MTP are starting to show up. > > USB mass storage - surrendering the file system to an external computer - > was never a good solution, except for its "works everywhere" portability. > Until something post-mass-storage is consistently deployed on most desktops > and understood by most desktop developers, there may not be a good solution. > > > > -- > 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
