[mono-android] detect SD Card path?

[Jonathan Pryor]

What is this i don't even...

So...  The android.os.Environment API is designed with _one_ external storage directory in mind. Samsung has decided that it'll have _two_ (or more?!), and is returning the internal one in preference to the external one. That appears to be the short of it.

What do you do? I have no idea. I would suggest going to the Samsung developer portal and asking them how your Java app is supposed to use the Environment API to e.g. access Music files when Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_MUSIC) returns the internal directory and not the external one. (If you contact their forums, I'd suggest using Java terminology; no sense complicating matters with C#/Mono for Android unless it's actually relevant, and in this case I doubt that Mono for Android is relevant.)

Really, what they _should_ have done was union-mount the two filesystems into one mount point. At least then you could read both internal and external storage without going crazy. (Writing would be...problematic -- which would you write to, internal or external? -- but at least reading would be sane.)

 - Jon

On Jun 7, 2012, at 2:48 PM, moelski wrote:

> Hi Jon, 
> 
> ok let´s make thing even more crazy ... 
> My wife has a brand new Samsung Galaxy S3. And I took a look at the device
> ... 
> There you have 2 folders in /mnt
> /mnt/sdcard  >> taht is the internal flash storage
> /mnt/sdextcard  >> that is the inserted sd card
> 
> So this is again a new "solution" ...  
> 
> But what can I do now (and I think there are a lot of people with the same
> problem ...)?
> It´s hard for a normal user to find the correct mounting points in order to
> use the sd crad storage 
> 
> Dominik
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