[android-developers] Re: Tablet Acer Iconica A100 and Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
On 13 mrt, 12:24, Mark Murphy wrote: > The firmware may have rights that SDK applications do not. As I'm quite new to Android programming I had not even tested this. Fear enclosed my mood. Luckily my app can write to the microSD card. Now I don't have to throw it out the window! ;-). -- 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: Tablet Acer Iconica A100 and Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Remote Red wrote: > What else > would I do with a sdcard like reading and writing? The firmware may have rights that SDK applications do not. For example, IIRC, apps can read from the XOOM's SD card (typically by means of the MediaStore ContentProvider), but apps cannot write to the XOOM's SD card. Leastways, that's what I recall from basic experiments I performed a while back. -- 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
[android-developers] Re: Tablet Acer Iconica A100 and Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
On 12 mrt, 15:06, Mark Murphy wrote: > Bear in mind that your app may not have rights to write to this mount point. That would be realy silly as it is my tablet and my sdcard. What else would I do with a sdcard like reading and writing? -- 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: Tablet Acer Iconica A100 and Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
On 12 mrt, 15:06, Mark Murphy wrote: > Correct, but that is the portion of on-board flash that Acer > designated as external storage. Very strange that this is possible. My understanding of external was/ is that that would be the sdCard. But maybe b0b points out how I have to see it. All thanks for the reply. -- 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: Tablet Acer Iconica A100 and Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:51:24AM -0700, b0b wrote: > In Google-speak, "External Storage" refer to a storage medium that can be > accessed externally (from a PC or MAc for example). > Most of the time it refers to the *internal* SD Card. Or, put another way, first, you have the internal external storage, and then you MIGHT have external external storage. Oh, and the names used on different devices vary Fun, huh? :-) Later, --jim -- THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 73 DE N5IAL (/4)| "> There it was, right in the title bar: spooky1...@gmail.com| > Microsoft Operations POS." < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > | ICBM / Hurricane: | "Never before has a TLA been so appropriately 30.44406N 86.59909W | mis-parsed." (alt.sysadmin.recovery) Android Apps Listing at http://www.jstrack.org/barcodes.html -- 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: Tablet Acer Iconica A100 and Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
On Monday, 12 March 2012 14:46:00 UTC+1, Remote Red wrote: > > The tablet Acer Iconica A100 returns for > Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() > > /mnt/sdcard > > Actually that is intern memory as the microSD card is mounted as > In Google-speak, "External Storage" refer to a storage medium that can be accessed externally (from a PC or MAc for example). Most of the time it refers to the *internal* SD Card. As other have said, their is no API to access other storage (microSD, other USB storage, ...) > > /mnt/external_sd > > I would like my app to find the microSD card. > > What are my options? > -- 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
