[android-developers] Re: Copy a file from a Desktop PC

2011-09-08 Thread franky.b
Ok, bad luck :( Does the Android device at least appear as External Storage Device in the file explorer when it is connected via USB? So it would be possible to figure out the drive letter of that storage volume and to do a common file copy in the desktop application? Regards, Frank On Sep 7,

Re: [android-developers] Re: Copy a file from a Desktop PC

2011-09-08 Thread Mark Murphy
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:01 AM, franky.b frank.bit...@gmail.com wrote: Does the Android device at least appear as External Storage Device in the file explorer when it is connected via USB? If the user elects to mount it, yes. With Honeycomb (and, presumably, future releases of Android), this

[android-developers] Re: Copy a file from a Desktop PC

2011-09-08 Thread franky.b
Okay, thanks a lot for your response. I have to deal with Windows only; we have a legacy application running on Windows that must sync some files to the Android device; it's a totally old-school, fat desktop application and actually I don't like it, but replacing it by a web based application is

Re: [android-developers] Re: Copy a file from a Desktop PC

2011-09-08 Thread Mark Murphy
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:43 PM, franky.b frank.bit...@gmail.com wrote: In order to figure out the drive letter some nasty tricks come into my mind... like writing a marker file to a specified folder on the device when starting the mobile app for the first time. The desktop application then