GitHub user macdonst opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/pull/127
Make Android default persistent file location internal
**TL;DR Summary**
We should switch the default for the Cordova Android File System to be on
internal storage, not the SD Card (or emulated SD card).
**Long Version**
Currently in Cordova Android when you use this code
"window.requestFileSystem(PERSISTENT, 0, win, fail);" the root file system path
that is returned is "/storage/emulated/0" i.e. "/sdcard".
Why you may ask? Because back in 2010 or so Bryce Curtis and I argued that
we should use the external storage location because internal storage was not
very large on Android 2.x and we didn't want to have developers filling up the
devices limited internal storage. Joe Bowser argued against it because of
issues with the SD Card on Android but was eventually out voted.
Now, I'm prepared to admit that Bryce was wrong (see what I did there?). I
feel that the default behaviour for "window.requestFileSystem(PERSISTENT, 0,
win, fail);" should be to resolve to a location on internal storage that meets
the following requirements:
a) private to the application
b) removed when the application is uninstalled
c) lines up with what we have on iOS and WP
In fact you can get this behaviour right now but setting the following
preference in config.xml:
<preference name="AndroidPersistentFileLocation" value="Internal" />
This gets you a root file path of "/data/data/{android
package}/files/files/". The double "files" is an issue but we can probably
ignore it for now.
If a user wants the old behaviour they only need to make the preference:
<preference name="AndroidPersistentFileLocation" value="Compatibility"
/>
and the original behaviour will be retained.
What I'm advocating for is to make internal storage the default behaviour
for Cordova Android.
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/macdonst/cordova-plugin-file master
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/pull/127.patch
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:
This closes #127
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commit ab83abc894fa28f110accd822c0202dbf38e60f2
Author: Simon MacDonald <[email protected]>
Date: 2015-07-27T20:05:13Z
Make Android default persistent file location internal
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