On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:39:32 AM UTC-7, Nadeem Hasan wrote: > > The removable external storage by design is not made available to > applications for general purpose storage simply because it's not expected > to be present all the time and is explicitly intended for read-only media > files. > That hasn't stopped many devices from making the removable storage their primary one. But if this is by design, I'd like to link to the design philosophy document. Maybe I can send that to the users. I can't find anything official, though. If the other devices are going to be unwriteable 90% of the time, I can't spend much more time on it.
> If your app/users need to create very large files, you need devices with > huge amounts of internal storage or you need to work out an alternate > mechanism such as cloud storage. Handheld portable devices are not general > purpose computers (yet). You should not expect to use them as one. > I do no subscribe to that philosophy. Compared to computers of not very many years ago, 2Gig or 8gig is already lots of space. If there is another card slot, users are going to put a 32gig SD card. In practice, it is not removed all that often. It is only natural that users expect apps to be able to use that space. Then they find out some can and some can't. I understand by now that I don't have any say, but this idea of tight, arbitrary control of what content a user puts on their own storage volume seems more Apple like than Android like. Apple users don't, in general, have file access to their own volume, so Android *could* be very competitive in this area. But at present, we are frustrating users enough that they are crawling back to iOS. 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
