[android-developers] Re: Why oh why did Google let manufacturers take over the getExternalStorageDirectory() API?

2012-12-13 Thread Piren
the naming of the function is bad, but the manufacturers are not to blame.. they actually do what google declared the function to be: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Environment.html#getExternalStorageDirectory() The real issue is that there's no easy way to get the sdcard,,,

[android-developers] Re: Why oh why did Google let manufacturers take over the getExternalStorageDirectory() API?

2012-12-13 Thread bob
Well, the confusing thing is that the function usually returns '/mnt/sdcard' when that's not actually the SD card. On Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:06:27 AM UTC-6, Piren wrote: the naming of the function is bad, but the manufacturers are not to blame.. they actually do what google

[android-developers] Re: Why oh why did Google let manufacturers take over the getExternalStorageDirectory() API?

2012-12-12 Thread b0b
On Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:54:10 UTC+1, niko20 wrote: Just what the title says, The getExternalStorageDirectory API is supposed to GET EXTERNAL STORAGE. But manufacturers have all turned it into point to the internal storage on the device. There should have been a

[android-developers] Re: Why oh why did Google let manufacturers take over the getExternalStorageDirectory() API?

2012-12-12 Thread Pent
A user should be able to move an SD card from one device to the next and have all of there data in the expected location and be ready to go from an app standpoint without jumping through these hoops. This is so broken it's pathetic. Yeah, this is where the pain comes. And when your app is