Even after all these years of being the most widely used mobile platform in the world, Android still remains a bit patchy when it comes to customizing download locations. For smaller apps this should do the trick, but remember that larger apps like games or apps that store additional files like podcasts or recordings will automatically store those files in your internal storage. So even if your podcast app is on your SD card, saving you 50MB or whatever, all those hundreds of MB of podcasts are still clogging up your device.
Once your device is rooted, check out apps like FolderMount and Link2SD to easily move entire installed apps onto external storage. Thankfully, apps often contain their own download options internally, letting you save tons of space by moving big audio, video and picture files over to your SD card. But if you want to dig deeper than that, then it makes a strong case for rooting your device taking into consideration all the risks that entails, of course.
By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy and European users agree to the data transfer policy. Content Manager at Make Tech Easier. Enjoys Android, Windows, and tinkering with retro console emulation to breaking point. I respectfully request my email address be kept incognito. To the comment by Chris C. All of the above paths on internal and external storage primary and secondary are app's private directories which are accessible to respective app without requesting any permission.
Apps can also create other directories not explicitly available through APIs in their private storage. All of these directories belonging to an app are deleted when the app is uninstalled. For secondary external storage and removable storage SAF is used. See details in How to save files to external SD card? However in Android 10 writing directly to primary external shared storage is deprecated getExternalStorageDirectory and getExternalStoragePublicDirectory are no more available.
Apps need to use one of Android's built-in content providers; either MediaStore for media files or SAF for any other type of files. Secondary external storage is only available to device owner.
Description of each directory is somewhat evident from names, details can be seen in API documentation. Caches are cleared by OS when running low on storage, keeping apps exceeding the allotted quota on top. Apps' private files directories in external storage aren't automatically scanned by MediaScanner but media directories are. See official documentation. The answer to your question you are asking is too big. I can, however, give you a basic answer which covers the basics. There are two kinds of apps: Root and non-root.
Sign up to join this community. On the right, the last tab will be File Explorer. Open that. Improve this answer. Rahul Rahul Firstly thanks for this. I didn't about file explorer. But I still can't access it. Is it because of permission? I really doubt that. Even if its a read only permission, you can atleast be able to see it. Only if the folder is empty, it'll disappear. Also make sure that there are no loose connections and your device has the status online.
The phone it online. But the same thing happens whether it is external or internal storage. This answer taught me something though. Wish it worked. Splash screens. Add the app bar. Control the system UI visibility. Supporting swipe-to-refresh.
Pop-up messages overview. Adding search functionality. Creating backward-compatible UIs. Home channels for mobile apps. App widgets. Media app architecture. Building an audio app. Building a video app. The Google Assistant. Routing between devices. Background tasks. Manage device awake state.
Save to shared storage. Save data in a local database. Sharing simple data. Sharing files. Sharing files with NFC. Printing files. Content providers. Autofill framework. Contacts provider. Data backup. Remember and authenticate users. User location. Using touch gestures. Handling keyboard input. Supporting game controllers. Input method editors. Performing network operations.
Transmit network data using Volley. Perform network operations using Cronet. Transferring data without draining the battery. Reduce network battery drain. Transfer data using Sync Adapters. Bluetooth Low Energy. Wi-Fi infrastructure. Discover and connect. Runtime API reference. Web-based content.
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