My main thoughts on this are: 1. The less we fight the way Google wants Android to work, the better. 2. Within the constraints of the above, backward compatibility is good.
On 9/12/21 3:51 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Dear all, > > I've been updating Bishop to work on newer versions of Android and have > found that we are running into problems trying to create the > "Nonstandard top-level folder" 'sword' at the root of the common storage > folder. > > Tobias, I know a while back you mentioned that you had to update Ezra > for Android recently, but it has been a long while since we talked about > it and I'd like to know if you've had any updated thoughts on what > you're doing there. > > Any other mobile Android devs have any thoughts. > > For now, I have updated our cordova plugin (and thus Bishop) to check > and if possible use paths in this preferred order: > > "/sdcard/Documents/sword" > > "/sdcard/sword" > > ((android.app.Application) > app).getApplicationContext().getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath(); > > And we are augmenting modules from AndBible: > > "/sdcard/Android/data/net.bible.android.activity/files" > > ... but I'd prefer not to do this any longer, once we all agree and > implement storing files in a common location. > > Any thoughts? > > Troy > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page -- signature Aloha, */Michael Johnson/** 26 HIWALANI LOOP • MAKAWAO HI 96768-8747*• USA mljohnson.org <https://mljohnson.org/> • eBible.org <https://eBible.org> • WorldEnglish.Bible <https://WorldEnglish.Bible> • PNG.Bible <https://PNG.Bible> Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp/Telephone: +1 808-333-6921 Skype: kahunapule • Telegram/Twitter: @kahunapule • Facebook: fb.me/kahunapule <https://www.facebook.com/kahunapule> _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
