[android-developers] Re: Using cache or sdcard as a temporary buffer. Good idea?

2010-11-22 Thread ramdroid
I think an app is not able to perform some action during un- installation. So if you have some cache on the SD card and someone is un-installing your app, then your cache is still left there. From this point of view, I would prefer using the phone's cache. -- You received this message because

[android-developers] Re: Using cache or sdcard as a temporary buffer. Good idea?

2010-11-19 Thread Moto
Oops! Well... But also read before issues cleaning up the cache after use? What? Typed too fast! I actually meant to say that I read somewhere that other users had issues clearing the cache... Also, seen users complaining about apps that had caches that were taking way too much space which

[android-developers] Re: Using cache or sdcard as a temporary buffer. Good idea?

2010-11-19 Thread Streets Of Boston
I found that if the user has a class 6 SDCard or higher, the (read) access of the SDCard is often faster than the access of the phone- memory. On Nov 19, 10:50 am, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently trying to create a buffer for my application which needs to be big! I mean at

Re: [android-developers] Re: Using cache or sdcard as a temporary buffer. Good idea?

2010-11-19 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I actually meant to say that I read somewhere that other users had issues clearing the cache... Many people have many issues doing many things on Android. More often then not, it's because they're simply doing it wrong.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Using cache or sdcard as a temporary buffer. Good idea?

2010-11-19 Thread Dianne Hackborn
You should also always take into account that the SD card is not secure -- any data you write there can be read by any other application, as well as modified in any way at any time by any applications that have the write SD card permission. You should never, ever put anyone's personal data on the