Why I am not able to move the app to SD card completely?

[AC Question]

I own a Samsung Galaxy A5 2016 model headset. Even if I move the app to SD card the data still remain in the internal storage >> Android >> data folder. For example I installed Asphalt 8 game and moved it to my SD card. But the data remains in internal storage >> Android >> data which consumes a lot of disk space.

 

[anon(632115)]

It's because of the way the app was compiled. You can't change that

 

[Golfdriver97]

Welcome to the forums. At the OS level, apps are set to install on the internal storage. When you opt to move data to your SD card, you are creating a redirect, so to speak, for the OS to look elsewhere for the corresponding data. It wasn't until Marshmallow that an SD card could be adopted into the main storage of a device.

Are you on MM now?

 

[anon(632115)]

Galaxy A5 doesn't have adaptive storage but even if it did believe this problem would not be solved

 

[Rukbat]

"Adaptive storage" is more of an advertising gimmick than a major change in Android, the way I see it. They should have gotten some developers who were familiar with SunOS to develop it. (You can specify the storage device or let the OS default it - and the OS runs the program regardless of where it is). I think External2Internal SD is better than AS (but you have to be rooted). You can take an 8GB phone, throw in a 128GB card and have a 128GB phone (as far as the phone is concerned, internal storage [SD0] is the card).