Re: [android-developers] Re: Tablet Acer Iconica A100 and Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();

2012-03-13 Thread Mark Murphy
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Remote Red rremm...@gmail.com 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.

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Re: [android-developers] Re: Tablet Acer Iconica A100 and Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();

2012-03-12 Thread Jim Graham
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

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