The heirarchy is quite often used as a tree of directory; on your own machine in your Workspace directory, for example. Seems to me that "sdcard:com/mycompany/myprogram" is a pretty good (and pretty obvious) way of avoiding confusion and duplication.
On May 29, 11:20 am, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > sdcard isn't java, its a filesystem. And the java package standard > doesn't guarantee anything... just look how many packages there are > with (incorrectly) "com.android". Besides, it would still get real > ugly fast if everybody followed those standards -- you'd have an > sdcard root full of junk thats hard to identify. Its nice to use a > controlled heirarchy, i.e. /sdcard/data/games/game1, /sdcard/data/ > games/game2, /sdcard/media/music/album1, /sdcard/media/video/comedy. > When properly organized, its very easy to navigate directly to the > data you want without needing complex and slow searches. > > I know that its adding a little bit, but its not that much to add -- > just keep track of the chosen path somewhere within your /data/data/ > whatever area. > > On May 29, 12:49 pm, Sundog <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On May 29, 10:37 am, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > But PLEASE, make the path user configurable (you can put in a default > > > if you like). Without this option, there can be file name conflicts > > > and there will definitely be a mess, even if you think that your path/ > > > filename makes great sense in terms of organization. > > > How about simply following the Java package standard? Guaranteed no > > namespace confusion.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
