In fact, it is not an OSMand trick, nor even an Android trick.
Android is a high level platform built on the basement of Linux and the Linux filesystem.
In the Linux(and probably Unix as well) world, a filename starting with the dot is the standard way to mark a hidden file or a folder.
BTW, Linux do not relies on filename.type Windows approach of distinguishing files, so ".filename" is still a filename and not a type without a filename.
Linux usually uses content based file distinguishing. ---------- Dne 21. října 2018 14:19:07 Metaluc <[email protected]> napsal:
EDITORIAL COMMENT: It's my opinion that requiring a "hidden" file with type only and no filename is a silly programmers trick by OsmAnd, for some purpose I fail to understand. Osmand should pick the alphabetical first metafile in the folder of any filename and ignore the rest.
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