Thanks.
Service and provider in another process looks like a way to go. Will try
that.

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, 11:16 Hans-Christoph Steiner, <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> hey Zoki,
>
> It is theoretically possible to use multiple containers, but it is not
> well tested and it is not the use case we have in mind for it.  IOCipher
> is designed around the idea of having a single file system that is
> dedicated to the app.  It was not really designed to be general purpose
> "containers".  That said, there is no technical limitation that would
> prevent IOCipher from handling multiple containers.  Its mostly a
> question of how to design a good API for that.  IOCipher uses
> java.io.File as the API, there is no way to specify which container to
> use in that API.  Having a global "switch container" method seems like a
> recipe for many super confusing bugs.
>
> I think starting a Service in its own process for each container would
> be the best way to do that with IOCipher as it is now.
>
> .hc
>
> zoki:
> > Hello, I have few questions regarding using multiple iocipher containers.
> > Is it possible to use multiple containers at the same time? Or at least
> > easy switching between them?
> > I don't know how to use them because VirtualFileSystem is singleton. I
> > guess that has some purpose, can someone please explain why?
> >
> > Now with new ExoPlayer which has support for playing from content
> provider
> > is very easy to play videos from secure container. I'm thinking to use
> > another container for caching video files, because it's easier to delete
> > container files and free storage rather than doing container shrinking.
> > Would I need to start new process for that?
> >
> > Thanks for any help :)
> >
> >
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