On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Justin <tiptopd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is what I can tell from running tests with customers. > The SD card on the Xoom mounts to "/mnt/external1". > This mount point is read-only.
This is not supported by the Android SDK. > My guess is that Google does not want app developers writing to the SD card > using File I/O. App developers should write to external storage, wherever that happens to be on a device, as pointed to by Environment.getExternalStorageDir() and related methods. > Posting this to the developers blog three > months in advance might have been nice. There was nothing to be posted, because there was no change in the state of Android. Writing to arbitrary mount points has never been officially supported and probably never will be officially supported. > My question is, how does Google want developers to write to the SD card on > the Motorola Xoom? You don't write to the SD card on the Motorola XOOM, until such time as this is supported by the Android SDK, or possibly by Motorola via some sort of SDK add-on or other instructions. I thought that perhaps such an enhancement might show up in Android 3.2, but I did not see it. If we're lucky, the whole storage stuff will get cleaned up in Ice Cream Sandwich. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
