[android-developers] Re: Portable application running on SD-card

2011-03-19 Thread lbendlin
I am not absolutely certain but I would think that this may also lead to a premature wearing out of the SD card flash. You only have a limited number of write cycles on these cards, and an active application may use up that limit quickly. The main memory flash has a better buffering strategy

Re: [android-developers] Re: Portable application running on SD-card

2011-03-19 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Not necessarily. Applications installed to internal phone memory can also put their data files on the memory card, and can write as much as they like. So there is no correlation really. Running an application from the memory card would mainly result in data being read, and this already