To give this discussion a bit more context: Various manufacturers (primarily HTC and Samsung) have been creating devices that have this additional memory partition (on top of the memory card and the internal storage), which can't be found using Android framework API, for the past two years or so.
The names of these additional mount points vary from manufacturer to manufacture, and from device to device. There are various hackish ways to find them (such as keeping a list of device-specific info in the app, or parsing the Linux mount points, etc.), but no official discovery / enumeration API. During these two years, the developers of Android have been ignoring this issue. One could hope that the reason for this is that some next version of Android will fill this need, and that discussing exactly how might bring to light too much about this next version before it's ready to be announced. Pure speculation on my part, but with Google IO just around the corner it's not too long before it becomes more clear. The alternative explanation is that they just don't think that this particular gap in the API is worth fixing. -- K 2012/6/17 Terry <terb...@gmail.com> > Chris; > > No, the HTC One V is sold WITHOUT an SDcard. > > Regards, Terry > > > On 17 Jun, 18:09, Chris Stratton <cs07...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 17, 10:23 am, Terry <terb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > You asked "What happens if you try to download something (perhaps a > > > PDF file) > > > with the built in browser? " > > > > > Good question. > > > > > WIth an SDcard inserted, I tried to download a free ebook. That went > > > well. > > > Then i removed the SDcard, and tried again. > > > This time I was informed (by the built in web browser) that an SDcard > > > was required to be able to download that file. > > > I.e. It seems that this browser had the same problem with this (HTC) > > > device that I have. > > > > Did the device ship with an sdcard included in the box (assuming you > > bought it via an official source) ? > > -- > 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 > -- 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
