This is a nice unofficial write-up:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/02/17/external-blues-google-has-brought-big-changes-to-sd-cards-in-kitkat-and-even-samsung-may-be-implementing-them/

-- K


On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 2:46:47 PM UTC+4, Enrique López Mañas wrote:
>
> The best reference is probably the Android Developers section about the 
> storage options.
>
> http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html
>
>
> 2014-04-08 12:41 GMT+02:00 [email protected] <javascript:> <
> [email protected] <javascript:>>:
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>> I have been away from developing for a while and have lost track of the 
>> changes that have been made in file access rules.
>> It used to be that the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission gave full access 
>> to create public files.
>> When my Note 3 was updated to KitKat my app lost the ability to write to 
>> the external SD card.
>>
>> My app regularly creates or modifies files to the external storage 
>> device.  I want these to be public, that is any app can get to them and I 
>> can modify them when I connect the phone to the computer using USB.
>>
>> Is there a good reference to describe the new access rules and how I can 
>> accomplish this?
>>
>> Thanks.
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