On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 12:55:00 PM UTC-4, digi owl wrote: > > Seems to me like what has happened is that manufacturers have cooped a > feature that was supposed to be for removable storage to support larger > non-removable capacity (a simple way to upsell). In the process, we have > found ourselves with partitioned internal storage (to allow USB file > transfer) and the current mess. I still find it interesting that the 3.2 > documentation should mention using MTP to read cards tho.
I think you are right. I overlooked this possibility and it makes a lot of sense. My entire reasoning that the removable storage was designed for media files only was not correct. There was only supposed to be one external storage location and the API was designed that way but the device manufacturers have changed the game by creating this removable and non-removable distinction. I think the future Android API needs to take this into account but we would still be left with millions of devices running the current versions of Android with no decent 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
