<RANT> Wow, Android and the manufacturers have made sure that all developers look like idiots by never considering that there might be more than one external storage volume in the Android platform, yet coming up with a great variety.
At present, I get no information from manufacturers about storage card paths EVEN after the device is on the market. I rely on unreliable third party accounts in forums. </RANT> Customer: I've set the storage path to /mnt/sdcard. How come it's writing to internal storage Developer: That may actually be the path to the internal storage. Customer: Huh? Then why does it say sdcard ? ... Ok, well then what path do i choose? Developer: Um, um, .... Based on an unsubstantiated rumor on some forums, it might be /mnt/sdcard/extStorages/SdCard Customer: Your app won't write to that. It says its read only. Developers: Um, based on further unsubstantiated information on the internet, it appears that Samsung may have made it so only built in apps can write to that space, OR maybe you can fix it by rooting and using a special fix, OR maybe if I use some special permission with my next release it will work. Customer: That's very encouraging, I'll go out and buy an even bigger SD Card . . . Now for my question. According to this: http://www.afternote.net/2012/03/sdcard-write-problem-fix-for-samsung.html "Now, apps have to request for WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE if they want to write to the external SD card, but many of them have not yet been updated to do so yet." Very encouraging, I just need to change my permissions, right? But it appears that this information is completely bogus, because. According to developer.android.com, THERE IS NO SUCH PERMISSION AS "WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE". If there is one, I'll bet only preinstalled apps can request it. Can anyone confirm or deny? Nathan -- 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
