On Apr 5, 2:20 am, Nikolay Elenkov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nice indeed. To add more unsubstantiated rumours, it appear that there are > actually environment variables that store the mount point(s) of secondary > SD cards. Those have been seen in the wild: > > EXTERNAL_STORAGE_ALL > EXTERNAL_STORAGE > SECOND_VOLUME_STORAGE > THIRD_VOLUME_STORAGE > > System.getenv("EXTERNAL_STORAGE_ALL") returns something like > this on *some* devices: > > /mnt/sdcard:/mnt/usbdisk:/mnt/ext_card > > So you'd have to check all and/or parse /proc/mounts, and > if you have the magic permission, you might be able to use > the secondary, etc. SD card. > Thank you. I may get desperate enough to try all that. The users certainly won't come up with the path on their own.
> In short, save yourself the trouble and don't bother :) > > Using Dropbox, or Google Drive(?), or whatever will > give you less headaches. I'm not sure how that helps developers, and I am not sure I can not bother. My customers easily create 8Gig or more of files with my app, so they care about what volume the app puts files on. Nathan -- 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
