On Thursday, February 20, 2014 3:22:24 PM UTC-8, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > > Is it maybe same issue as described below? > > > http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/02/17/external-blues-google-has-brought-big-changes-to-sd-cards-in-kitkat-and-even-samsung-may-be-implementing-them/<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidpolice.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fexternal-blues-google-has-brought-big-changes-to-sd-cards-in-kitkat-and-even-samsung-may-be-implementing-them%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGPvcojG0wmhGT-czaJqWQIOXx23A> > > It probably is. That implies this is as Android problem that is sometimes worked around by manufacturers. Samsung may or may not have given up the fight on this round.
I do remember getting reports in 3.2 and it appeared there was nothing to be done that I could find. That WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE permission is not one I can give myself, apparently. > The documentation you quoted talks about > "android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE", and then you went on to write > that your app has always had WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE. Perhaps you need the > READ permission as well? > > -- K > > WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE implies READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE in any documentation I've read. There is a chance that if I directed my users to use: Android/data/com.example.foo/ on external storage devices that they might be able to use their valued card. However, that is difficult to test as I don't have one of the target devices, much less all of them. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
