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
