[android-developers] Re: Copy a file from a Desktop PC
Ok, bad luck :( Does the Android device at least appear as External Storage Device in the file explorer when it is connected via USB? So it would be possible to figure out the drive letter of that storage volume and to do a common file copy in the desktop application? Regards, Frank On Sep 7, 4:48 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:43 AM, franky.b frank.bit...@gmail.com wrote: I'm writing an application that must be able to copy a file between an Android device and a Desktop PC and vice versa. The best way to do this would be to connect the Android device to the Desktop PC via an USB cable. Is there any API that can be used to copy files to and from the device when an USB connection is etablished? No, sorry. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://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
Re: [android-developers] Re: Copy a file from a Desktop PC
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:01 AM, franky.b frank.bit...@gmail.com wrote: Does the Android device at least appear as External Storage Device in the file explorer when it is connected via USB? If the user elects to mount it, yes. With Honeycomb (and, presumably, future releases of Android), this will also require that the host OS support MTP -- Windows does, OS X and Linux need third-party apps. So it would be possible to figure out the drive letter of that storage volume and to do a common file copy in the desktop application? I don't know how you would determine the drive letter, since it could be just about anything. And, of course, the notion of a drive letter is a Windows construct. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in Oslo: http://bit.ly/fjBo24 -- 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
[android-developers] Re: Copy a file from a Desktop PC
Okay, thanks a lot for your response. I have to deal with Windows only; we have a legacy application running on Windows that must sync some files to the Android device; it's a totally old-school, fat desktop application and actually I don't like it, but replacing it by a web based application is not possible right now ;-) In order to figure out the drive letter some nasty tricks come into my mind... like writing a marker file to a specified folder on the device when starting the mobile app for the first time. The desktop application then can search all drives for that file. Cheers, Frank On 8 Sep., 14:07, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:01 AM, franky.b frank.bit...@gmail.com wrote: Does the Android device at least appear as External Storage Device in the file explorer when it is connected via USB? If the user elects to mount it, yes. With Honeycomb (and, presumably, future releases of Android), this will also require that the host OS support MTP -- Windows does, OS X and Linux need third-party apps. So it would be possible to figure out the drive letter of that storage volume and to do a common file copy in the desktop application? I don't know how you would determine the drive letter, since it could be just about anything. And, of course, the notion of a drive letter is a Windows construct. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in Oslo:http://bit.ly/fjBo24 -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Re: Copy a file from a Desktop PC
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:43 PM, franky.b frank.bit...@gmail.com wrote: In order to figure out the drive letter some nasty tricks come into my mind... like writing a marker file to a specified folder on the device when starting the mobile app for the first time. The desktop application then can search all drives for that file. What if the user deletes the file? Syncing in Android is usually to/from the cloud, which is why you won't find much for USB-based sync readily available. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in NYC: http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- 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
