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Android 4.4 Disables SD Card Access for Apps

posted by Dopefish on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the my-way-or-the-highway dept.
quadrox writes:

"It used to be possible for Android apps to access any kind of storage on an android device through the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. Writing to the SD card is useful for many different kinds of apps, e.g. file managers or cloud storage synchronization. However, the latest version of Android will no longer allow apps to write anywhere on external storage media, instead apps will only be allowed to access app-specific folders on SD cards. Android Police has an excellent writeup of the changes and the implications for users."

[ED Note: This is bound to irritate power users that rely on their SD cards for additional device storage.]

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by mrbluze on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:45AM

    by mrbluze (49) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:45AM (#2380)

    Android 4.3 allows you to have apps on your SD card. It doesn't mean the apps can read each other's data, so why restrict it, other than as a kind of DRM perhaps?

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