On 01/16/2011 12:21 PM, Zsolt Vasvari wrote:
I agree. A "smart" user wouldn't complain in the first place about
not having the "Move to SD card" option for a 1MB app.
Opinion: It would be nice if the "Move to SD card"-function could detect
that the application requests for instance BOOT_COMPLETED or has a
widget etc and inform the user that those functions will no longer work
as expected if the move is completed. This assumes that the application
isn't installed on the SD by default and that the user understands the
warning so I'm not really holding my breath for it.
I guess the best you can do as a developer is to detect that the app is
running from SD and inform the user about the drawbacks on the next
start. Hardly ideal, but better than nothing. At least the explanation
can then be very specific as opposed to what a generic function would
have to state.
As with many apps, it is not obvious that the automatic startup or
widget function is a critical function of the application, it may just
be a nice frill that is seldom used (I know my self that I really only
ever use ONE widget and that one has no other function than being a
widget - it shows the next few calendar items).
My few cents / Jonas
On Jan 16, 6:12 pm, Marcin Orlowski<webnet.andr...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16 January 2011 07:49, Dianne Hackborn<hack...@android.com> wrote:
Sorry, you can point them to that documentation if you want. This is a
pretty fundamental aspect of the behavior of the SD card.
Are you kidding? I'd say that forseeing such user behaviour is pretty
fundamental when you design anything. It'd not hurt too add a warning
popup telling user to confirm "move to sd card" and ack s/he
understand the risk of certain features of the app (which can easlily
be told in most cases based on app's Manifest) simply just won't work.
Assuming users are by default smart not stupid is stupid, not smart.
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