On 7/24/11 1:35 PM, Slava Paperno wrote:
Does the special folder "preferences" point to some location on mobile devices?
No. The release notes on each mobile OS have a list of available folders you can access.
If not, where is one supposed to place a preferences file for an application on a mobile?
Generally specialFolderPath("documents"), for a couple of reasons. Not only is it one of the folders backed up by iTunes on iOS (all app data is backed up on Android) but also since that folder exists and is writable on both mobile platforms, you don't have to branch your code.
Is the Windows tradition of naming the preferences file with the "ini" extension upheld on mobiles?
As long as you store your file in one of the approved, writable folders, it doesn't matter what you name it. An "ini" file won't have any particular meaning on mobile however. Since it's difficult to see what other apps use for their file names because of the sandboxing, I don't know if Windows naming conventions are common. It wouldn't matter.
A related question: does special folder "home" have any meaning on a mobile? The concept of the "current user" does not exist on a mobile device, does it?
iOS has specialFolderPath("home") though I don't know if it is writable. Android doesn't have a "home" folder; at present it has only three special folder locations and only two are writable.
I don't think mobile devices can have more than one user account (can they?) so there wouldn't be a specific "current user". The device itself would be the current user, I suppose.
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