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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: 1) by SuggestiveLanguage on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:06PM

    by SuggestiveLanguage (1313) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:06PM (#2792)
    At this point we can wait until FirefoxOS [mozilla.org] releases hardware in North America or KDE/Vivaldi [ubergizmo.com] releases something besides vaporware.

    Either way, the open mobile market isn't looking very good right now.

  • (Score: 1) by cykros on Thursday February 20 2014, @12:52AM

    by cykros (989) on Thursday February 20 2014, @12:52AM (#3179)

    I think I'd opt for going with Jolla before FirefoxOS. No offense to Mozilla, but I prefer them in the browser department over the OS side of things. I use the web for at most 50% of what I do...and most certainly do not want my computer to be centered around a browser.

    There's some hope there, and if I can make sure that Ingress will run on Jolla successfully, I'll be looking to toss it on my existing Samsung tablet.

    If I don't get to set the permissions for my filesystem, it's not my filesystem.

    • (Score: 1) by SuggestiveLanguage on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:37AM

      by SuggestiveLanguage (1313) on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:37AM (#3418)

      I think I'd opt for going with Jolla before FirefoxOS. No offense to Mozilla, but I prefer them in the browser department over the OS side of things. I use the web for at most 50% of what I do...and most certainly do not want my computer to be centered around a browser.

      I would be happy with Jolla or any other option willing to deliver a good enough product.

      As for Mozilla, it seems that they have little stomach for the North American market. Perhaps because they don't want to bite Google's hand yet, but that's all conspiracy talk.