On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:26 AM, RLScott <[email protected]> wrote: > It has been my experience that > Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() which you mentioned > generally points to the built-in kind of external memory.
It points to whatever the device manufacturer chose to point it to. On some devices, it is removable; on some devices, it is not. > So if you > want to access the real removable SD card file system there is no way > I know of other than hard-wiring the actual path name, or letting the > user enter it on a form (assuming the user even knows what the path > name is). Or not using it. Or waiting for the Android SDK to support multiple "external" mount points. Or waiting for somebody to crowdsource a database of available standard mount points and their accessibility (just because /mnt/foo exists does not mean you can read or write to it, or that the user can access it), and waiting for somebody to create some sort of JAR that leverages this crowdsourced database, so you can determine the available options for your hardware to present to the user. > For example, on the Acer Iconia Tablet A-100 there is > > /mnt/sdcard (built-in "external" memory") > /mnt/external_sd (removable SD card) You will note that neither of these is /sdcard, which was my point to the OP. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- 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
