"It's forced into the built-in space that will get picked up by the Android media scanner when it indexes EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI."
btw I don't think the media scanner picks it up. The media scanner would need to be explicitly told to look at '/mnt/emmc' On Jan 4, 12:45 pm, Tabman <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Doug, > > Your reply is very helpful, you also replied to another post of mine > so thanks again :) > > On Dec 20 2010, 1:51 am, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Dec 19, 2:14 pm, Tabman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have a question related to this. How many phones are out there with this > > > type of behavior ? I want to access Camera Photos/Videos on a phone and > > > for > > > that I've used EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI but it seems that approach would fail > > > on > > > a phone likeDroidIncredible. How should I design my app such that it is > > > able to get camera data from any android phone ? > > > It will fail on theDroidIncrediblebecause they didn't wire up that > > URI to point to the "external" storage mounted at, I think, /emmc. > > That's fragmentation for you. (I think they did it wrong.) But at > > least their camera app doesn't put content on the sdcard. It's forced > > into the built-in space that will get picked up by the Android media > > scanner when it indexes EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI. > > > However, it works on Galaxy S devices because its built-in "external" > > space is wired to that URI --AND-- if you do have a sdcard in the > > device, it will mount THAT filesystem underneath the internal storage > > space. So if the internal storage space was at /mnt/sdcard, your > > additional sdcard would be at /mnt/sdcard/external_sd. And when the > > Android media scanner runs to index media referenced by > > EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, it will scan all of /mnt/sdcard, including the > > sdcard. So they're doing it in a more compatible way that lets you > > get at the media on the user's sdcard in addition to the built-in > > space. > > > I don't know what the Nexus S or HTC Hero do. I also don't know what > > this Picasa Tool Pro does. Maybe it doesn't query against the Android > > content providers for media and does its own thing instead. > > > Doug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
