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It seems like Google's deprecated external storage in Android. I'm under the impression they don't want to force the average user into seeing the filesystem, an
by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
It seems like Google's deprecated external storage in Android. I'm under the impression they don't want to force the average user into seeing the filesystem, and they couldn't find a way to make ext. storage seamlessly coexist with onboard (apps, etc.) without showing the FS.
- Spearchucker 14y agoIf I'm not mistaken (it happens often) the exclusion of external storage was to avoid paying licensing costs for FAT/FAT32. So really just to keep the price down.
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoHere's[0] a relevant thread (morrildl == Android dev). [0] http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/mg14z/whoa_whoa_ics_doesnt_support_usb_mass_storage/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/mg14z/whoa_whoa_ics...
- piechlediech 14y agoi would be super happy if it was ext3/4 anyways. not sure why they could not mount that transparently as additional storage.
- huggyface 14y agoOptional external storage doesn't force anyone into anything. You can live in long-term bliss with a device having an SD card slot having never plugged a memory card in. Having said that it does seem that Google is trying to move away from external storage, likely to try to recover from the horrendous original implementation of it (still one of the nastiest, ugliest parts of Android). The original intent of external storage was largely as a read mechanism allowing you to plug in a card with your entire music collection, etc. When it got delegated to read/write needs, primarily because early devices had ridiculously low internal storage, things fell apart.