• leisesprecher@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Question is rather: why does Android not allow any distinction between Internal and external/removable?

    My downloaded media files belong on the SD card, but APKs, sqlite DBs and temp files don’t belong there. But de facto, it’s just used as an extension for internal storage. That’s just stupid.

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        2 months ago

        Sometime around android 9 they removed a bunch of sd card related features to make you have to do the weird combine with internal storage thing

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      2 months ago

      That very much isn’t the case beyond like a decade+ ago. For the last decade its been not possible, or extra work to install apks on sd card. The choice is there, but it’s far from default.