Hi, I have a question for anyone who has tested Froyo. Have you found it possible to run apps from the SD card without moving them onto the onboard memory? Or is it more like Blackberry and I have to load from archived into the memory?
Apps on SD card and Froyo
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No application currently in the market is allowed to install to the SD card. Developers have to update the apps, explicitly allowing them to be put on SD cards, then build them against the Froyo SDK and finally make them backwards compatible if they still want to run them on older Android versions.
Even then, not every kind of app is supposed to be installed on external storage. Apps that are or use the following should not be put on SD card - quoting Google dev guide: services, alarm services, input method engines (custom keyboards and such), live wallpapers, live folders and widgets. In short, everything that runs in the background / runs all the time. Why? Because the moment you dismount your SD card all processes that belong to the apps on the SD card get killed, and they don't get automatically restarted later. In Google's own words, installing to external storage is mainly for large apps, that have no background functionality, like games.
Even then, not every kind of app is supposed to be installed on external storage. Apps that are or use the following should not be put on SD card - quoting Google dev guide: services, alarm services, input method engines (custom keyboards and such), live wallpapers, live folders and widgets. In short, everything that runs in the background / runs all the time. Why? Because the moment you dismount your SD card all processes that belong to the apps on the SD card get killed, and they don't get automatically restarted later. In Google's own words, installing to external storage is mainly for large apps, that have no background functionality, like games.
Apps2SD Left Out of Unofficial Build?
Wasn't sure if I should start a new thread for this one, but I'll start here to minimize clutter..
For all of you who have Froyo early, do you think storing apps on the SD card is something they left off on this unofficial build? I've updated apps where the developer explicitly states in the changelog that storing on the SD card is now supported, but I still don't have the option.
The only other thing I can think of is that there's something I need to enable in the settings somewhere. I remember from the i/o conference that there was a screen that popped up that showed the option to let Android decide when to move apps to the SD card, or to do it manually. Has anyone found that?
Love Froyo, but getting apps on the SD card was what I was probably first and foremost excited about as an app hog.
Wasn't sure if I should start a new thread for this one, but I'll start here to minimize clutter..
For all of you who have Froyo early, do you think storing apps on the SD card is something they left off on this unofficial build? I've updated apps where the developer explicitly states in the changelog that storing on the SD card is now supported, but I still don't have the option.
The only other thing I can think of is that there's something I need to enable in the settings somewhere. I remember from the i/o conference that there was a screen that popped up that showed the option to let Android decide when to move apps to the SD card, or to do it manually. Has anyone found that?
Love Froyo, but getting apps on the SD card was what I was probably first and foremost excited about as an app hog.
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