[android-developers] Re: Accessing Disk memroy from Application

2011-01-16 Thread Bob Kerns
On top of that, even applications with permission don't have control to write into the same *physical* location, because of wear leveling. Basically, every time you write to an flash memory card location, the card actually places this data into a *different* physical location. This is because writ

Re: [android-developers] Re: Accessing Disk memroy from Application

2011-01-14 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Fwiw, the limitation is not an issue of running in Dalvik vs. native code, but the permissions / uid an application is running as. Third party apps can not run with permissions to be able to do this kind of stuff. On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Hari Edo wrote: > > > On Jan 14, 1:32 am, Saj TK

[android-developers] Re: Accessing Disk memroy from Application

2011-01-14 Thread Hari Edo
On Jan 14, 1:32 am, Saj TK wrote: > Well, what i really wanted to do is delete the Media file from the memory > location and write some encrypted data to the same location. I have to make > sure that i m writing to the same location, not anywhere else in the card. To do this task on the removab

Re: [android-developers] Re: Accessing Disk memroy from Application

2011-01-13 Thread Saj TK
Well, what i really wanted to do is delete the Media file from the memory location and write some encrypted data to the same location. I have to make sure that i m writing to the same location, not anywhere else in the card. On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Vinay S wrote: > You can use the SD C

[android-developers] Re: Accessing Disk memroy from Application

2011-01-13 Thread Vinay S
You can use the SD Card to store your data. Use File Stream to write the data to the files.. You need to have Read and write permission added to your application. -Vinay On Jan 14, 11:05 am, Saj TK wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to access the disk memroy directly from the Android > applicatio