Re: [android-developers] ExternalStorage, ContentProviders, and Startup

2010-10-03 Thread Dianne Hackborn
I would strongly recommend not putting such apps on the SD card. There is a reason that apps must explicitly opt-in to being on the SD card, and why we recommend so many types of apps don't do so: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/install-location.html#ShouldNot

[android-developers] ExternalStorage, ContentProviders, and Startup

2010-10-03 Thread Adam Hammer
I have a ContentProvider in a separate apk that supplies data to my live wallpaper. At boot time my content provider does not seem to be available. I can wait until the SD is mounted, but it's still not ready, as I assume it makes the provider available post mount. So how do I wait for the provide