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Adoptable Storage -- Finally my Android tablet's SD card has value


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2015 Oct 6, 8:30am   1,222 views  0 comments

by John Bailo   ➕follow (0)   💰tip   ignore  

I don't know how many of you fiddle with apps on SmartPhones and tablets, but if you're not willing to bend over backwards, and sometimes even then, you'll run out of space because Android doesn't natively let you use your SD card to load apps.

I've topped out both my phone and tablet in a short amount of time and there are still way more apps I want to load. Right now (Lollipop, 5x) the SD card to Android is data only...files, photos, video. If a developer wanted to take advantage of that and say, put his cache data, or icons, images, on the SD card, he could..but few seem to.

Now there is Marshmallow, 6.x and it has "Adoptable Storage":

Marshmallow has a new feature called "adoptable storage," which makes external storage on Android a first-class citizen. "Adopting" a piece of external storage lets the system reformat it and treat it just like internal storage. The external storage can then become the primary storage the device uses for apps, private data, and media.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmallow-thoroughly-reviewed/7/

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