> mark, your handful of comments are useless > and does not help the cause of this thread. neither does yours al. > sure, lbcoder isnt providing any patch...but at least he is giving an > idea. the fact that you claim that his idea is flawed but then to not > provide one of your own, is rather pointless and you should just not > post.
Lots of people have lots of ideas on how to solve the SD card problem, I see them pop up on these lists, on forums, and very occasionally in my own head :) The problem with many of these ideas is that they are often not backed up with plans for providing an implementation. This doesn't make such ideas any less valid, it just makes them near pointless because they burn brightly in a discussion list and then fizzle out. If someone is serious about his idea, they will take on board Mark/Al's concerns and use their existing skills to get the ball rolling. A start would be to address those issues directly and hire some developers to make a start on something substantial. > i have a work-around idea myself: the > application called AppManager (found on the market) enables you to > store the apk's on your sd card, and then install from the sd card at > a later time. now what if you create an app (lets call it ###) that > would automatically detect your least used applications, copy the > apk's to your sd card, and then delete them from your memory, but > leave the icon and name on the phone. I like your idea, but unless you take on board what Mark says, that is what it will remain: an idea. Good ideas come and go all the time, but as long as everyone has their own ideas for everything, it is only the ideas belonging to the ones who get off their asses and do something that will ever become a reality. Brainstorm sites can go some way to countering this, but you'll probably find that the majority of brainstorm ideas that actually get developed are backed in some significant way by the person who posted them. Seeing that you asked for feedback, I think the AppManager-style solution is workable, but there are some serious caveats. Transferring an apk between filesystems before launching an application is going to have a detriment effect on the load time, and we're not just talking a couple of seconds. Even if it was a couple of seconds, it will still make the platform feel sluggish. Limiting it to the least used apps helps a bit, but still problematic. For example I only play games or open the weather app very occasionally, but when I do start one I don't intend to wait 8 seconds for file transfers to complete before I even see a splash screen. The idea is interesting though, perhaps with some further thought it could work. Let us know your plans. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:50 AM, mjrtom <[email protected]> wrote: > > just thought i'd chime in here. i like lbcoder's partitioning idea. he > is actually putting forth an idea that sounds somewhat reasonable, > though not without flaw. mark, your handful of comments are useless > and does not help the cause of this thread. neither does yours al. > sure, lbcoder isnt providing any patch...but at least he is giving an > idea. the fact that you claim that his idea is flawed but then to not > provide one of your own, is rather pointless and you should just not > post. > > now, as a person with very basic understanding of programming (i > understand the partitioning of the sd card, but i have no idea how to > implement it myself), i have a work-around idea myself: the > application called AppManager (found on the market) enables you to > store the apk's on your sd card, and then install from the sd card at > a later time. now what if you create an app (lets call it ###) that > would automatically detect your least used applications, copy the > apk's to your sd card, and then delete them from your memory, but > leave the icon and name on the phone. ### should ensure that there is > always at least lets say 10Mb of free space. then when you need the > application, when you try to open it, ### should automatically install > the apk from the sd card and there you go. yea it will take an extra 2 > seconds to open the app, but it will go unnoticed, and you'll always > have free space on the phone. > > let me know what you think. once again, i have very limited knowledge > about what is possible with this phone. but as for now, i'm doing > exactly what i described above...but manually. > > i think somebody is gonna get a lot of glory from this one! woohoo. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
